Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cave
Poulnabrucky, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Poulnabrucky
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.05760, -9.16445
- SMR number
- CL005-229----
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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
This cave, known as Christy's Cave, is a small natural limestone cave that extends for 12m. The cave came to notice in 2013 with the discovery of a shell midden and small drystone wall located inside the entrance. Shells and bones exposed on the cave floor were examined and comprised limpet and bones of a dog, sheep and other mammals. There is no evidence to support the suggested medieval date proposed by Lavender-Duncan et al. (2013, 48) (pers. comm. Marion Dowd).
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 12 May 2014
References
Lavender-Duncan, J., Lavender-Duncan, K., O'Connell, T., Farrell, T and Cooper, Q. 2013 Three new caves in the High Burren. Irish Speleology 20, 48-9.
Nearby in the register
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- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
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- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.