Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - burial cairn
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
- 53.05279, -9.15887
- SMR number
- CL005-191----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a slight N-facing rise in rocky pasture, close to the edge of a limestone shelf to the N, overlooking Glensleade valley to the E, and within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL009-225----). Listed as ‘cemetery cairn’ in the RMP (1996). Two conjoined grass-covered cairns of stone forming a single oval cairn (10.7m N-S). The N cairn (6-7m E-W; H 0.7-8m) has no visible features apart from a post-medieval D-shaped drystone pillar on its summit (L 1.2m; Wth 0.8m; H 1.7m). The S cairn (4m E-W; H 0.4m) has a cist (CL005-191002-) aligned N-S and defined by protruding side stones. The ground falls away to the N in part accounting for the greater height of the N cairn. Another cairn (CL005-192----) is located c. 90m to the S.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell
Date of upload: 14 October 2025
Nearby in the register
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.