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Ringfort - cashel

Poulbaun (Burren By.), County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Poulbaun, 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
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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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 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

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

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