Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Poulnabrucky, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Poulnabrucky
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.05688, -9.17090
- SMR number
- CL005-189----
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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 an area of flat limestone pavement with encroaching hazel scrub to the N and W within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL009-255----). Marked by T. Coffey on an annotated SMR map in 1994 (SMR file). A pronounced subcircular earth and gravel mound (diam. 5-6m) highest to the SE (H 1.5m), falling to the N (H 0.6m). The mound has been heavily burrowed by badgers and there is a hawthorn tree growing from its SE side.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell
Date of upload: 14 October 2025
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Caveunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.