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Hut site

Poulnabrone, County Clare, Ireland

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Townland
Poulnabrone
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.05340, -9.13994
SMR number
CL005-227002-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

In the centre of an enclosure (CL005-227001-) on a terrace in exposed karst with rising ground to the E and within a multiperiod field system (CL005-227004-). A subcircular hut site (int. diam. c. 3.5m) defined by heavily overgrown walls (Wth c. 1-1.5m). A larger enclosure (CL005-227003-) is located c. 60m to the WSW. 

 

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell

 

Date of upload: 14 October 2025

Nearby in the register

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

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