Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Poulbaun (Burren By.), County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Poulbaun (Burren By.)
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.06966, -9.09322
- SMR number
- CL006-036001-
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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
In a valley at the foot of an E-facing slope with rough grazing to the N and extensively improved and cleared land to the S. Partially indicated on the 1915 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. A multiperiod complex of small irregular fields of extending over an area c. 500m by 500m between four definite cashels (CL006-036003-, CL006-036004-, CL006-036005- and CL006-036007-) and three enclosures CL006-036002-, CL006-036006 and CL006-181----).
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 12 May 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.