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Cairn - unclassified

Poulaphuca (Oughtmama ED), County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cairn - unclassified, Poulaphuca, 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
Poulaphuca (Oughtmama ED)
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.06150, -9.09972
SMR number
CL006-035002-

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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 rough grazing near the upper edge of a steep NE-facing slope with panoramic views over the valley beyond and Turlough Hill cairn (CL006-017002-) c. 6.5km NNE. A low oval-shaped grass-covered cairn of large stones (8.4m N–S; 4.7m E–W; ext. H 0.5m) with no visible kerb or revetting stones. A second cairn (CL006-035002-) and a wedge tomb (CL006-035003-) lie c. 50m SE and 80m SE respectively. A mound wall runs WSW from c. 20m W for c. 100m, and later slab walls run N–S and E–W, forming rectilinear field systems; these both form part of a multiperiod field system (CL005-160001-) extending over the plateau to the W and into the neighbouring townlands of Cragballyconoal and Eanty More.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin

Date of upload: 10 May 2021

Nearby in the register

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

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