Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Poulbaun (burren By.), County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Poulbaun (burren By.)
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.06894, -9.09357
- SMR number
- CL006-036004-
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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 level reclaimed pastureland at the NE end of low narrow NE–SW ridge with short but steep slopes falling away from the site to W, N and E, within a field system (CL006-036001-). Indicated on the 1915 ed. of the 6-inch OS map. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). A very poorly preserved roughly circular cashel (int. dims. 23m N–S; 22.1m E–W) defined by a collapsed stone spread (Wth 2.7–4.1m; int. H 0.1–0.3m; ext. H 0.2–1.1m) on top of which is a later tumbled drystone wall. Occasional outer cashel facing-stones survive at S, W and E but no inner facing-stones are obviously visible and there is no trace of an entrance. The perimeter is 90% thorn and briar covered and there is a clump of briar and thorn in the interior to W of centre. It is overlooked by a another cashel (CL006-036003-) c. 150m to the SSW and a third cashel is visible c. 150m to the NNE (CL006-036005-).
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 12 May 2021
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.