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Enclosure

Poulnabrone, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Poulnabrone, 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
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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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

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

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

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