Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Poulnabrone, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Poulnabrone
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.05322, -9.14094
- SMR number
- CL005-227003-
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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 terrace of exposed karst with some grass cover with rising ground to the E and within a multiperiod field system (CL005-227004-). An irregular figure-of-eight enclosure (c. 65m N-S; c. 30m E-W) that follows the contour of a low natural terrace defined by a stone wall (Wth 1-2m; max. H 1.2m) comprising an inner and outer facing of upright slabs, concealed in places by sod. Noted by Christine Grant. Visible on OSi MapGenie orthophotography (2013-2018). The facing survives intermittently around the enclosure. A slab wall aligned E-W extends across the S half of the enclosure, and a small section of mound wall abuts its N side. A second enclosure (CL005-227001-) with a hut site (CL005-227002-) is located c. 40m to the ENE.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell
Date of upload: 14 October 2025
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.