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Ringfort - cashel

Poulbaun (Burren By.), County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Poulbaun, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Poulbaun (Burren By.)
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated (1916)
Coordinates
53.06914, -9.10543
SMR number
CL005-160033-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In rocky pasture, on the high SE slopes of a hill with clear views to E, S, and SW, and within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL005-160001-). Indicated as an enclosure on the 1916 OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ on the RMP (1996). Marked on Tim Robinson’s Burren map (1977). A subcircular cashel (29m N-S; 25.8m E-W) defined by a drystone wall (Wth 0.8m) that has been reduced to a rubble spread (Wth c. 2m) in places. The outer wall-facing survives intermittently (max. H 0.9m). The inner wall facing has largely collapsed, with a short stretch surviving at SW (H 0.9m). The monument has no clear entrance aside from a slight break in the wall to the N. A modern animal pen has been built in the NW quadrant of the garth. The cashel appears to be superimposed on an earlier NE-SW mound wall visible on OSi MapGenie orthophotography (2013-2018).

 

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell

 

Date of upload: 30 September 2025

References

Robinson, T. 1977 (revised 1999) The Burren: a two-inch map of the uplands of north-west Clare. Map scale 1:31680. Roundstone: Folding Landscapes.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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