Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Poulbaun (Burren By.), County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Poulbaun (Burren By.)
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.07029, -9.09295
- SMR number
- CL006-036005-
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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
On level but rough, rocky pastureland 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 subcircular cashel (ext. dims. c. 32m E–W; 33m N–S defined by a collapsed stone spread (Wth 3–5m; H 0.4–0.6m) with no obvious trace of facing-stones or an original entrance. A later field wall runs E–W across the N limits and the site is 100% overgrown with briar and thorn. A souterrain is marked in the site on Robinson’s map (1977), however, no trace was found during a field inspection (1997). A subrectangular enclosure is shown abutting the E limits of the site on the 1915 ed. of the OS 6-map; this has been cleared with some of the stones dumped onto the cashel wall-line. It may have been an old annexe contemporary with the cashel. Two cashels (CL006-036003- and CL006-036004-) are visible 115m and 260m to the SSW respectively and an enclosure (CL006-036002-) is visible 125m to the NW.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 12 May 2021
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 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.