Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Cullaun (burren By.), County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cullaun (burren By.)
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.05978, -9.23179
- SMR number
- CL005-269----
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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 W-facing slope on a shelf of fairly exposed karst. A subrectangular enclosure (c. 43m NNE-SSW; c. 32m WNW-ESE) defined by partially grassed-over stone walls and visible on Digital Globe (2011-2013) and on OSi Aerial Premium orthophotography (2012-2018). Possibly contemporary field walls extend outwards at E and SE.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 21 December 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 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.