Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Aghawinnaun,clab,coolnatullagh (burren By., Carran Par.),coolnatullagh (burren By., Oughtmama Par.),coskeam,deelin Beg,gortaclare,pullagh,rannagh West,slievecarran, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aghawinnaun,clab,coolnatullagh (burren By., Carran Par.),coolnatullagh (burren By., Oughtmama Par.),coskeam,deelin Beg,gortaclare,pullagh,rannagh West,slievecarran
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.06943, -9.03891
- SMR number
- CL006-042001-
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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
An extensive multiperiod field system (c. 7km SW–NE; 2.2km NW–SE) extending across Gortaclare Mountain, Coolnatullagh valley, Doomore and Slievecarran comprised of mound, mound/slab walls and contour walls much of which is visible on Digital Globe (2011-13) and of OSi Aerial Premium (2012-2018) orthophotographs. It encompasses at least three prehistoric farmsteads (CL006-146----, CL006-098002- and CL006-145----) numerous cairns and mounds, at least one wedge tomb (CL006-042009-), three fulacht fia (CL006-045003-, CL006-045004- and CL006-045005-), several hut sites and numerous other monuments (Carey 2009; Jones et al., 2011). Excavation of a cairn (CL006-044----) within its bounds that produced evidence of burial in the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age, and comparisons with the dated field systems on Roughan Hill (Jones 2016), suggest large parts of this system are prehistoric in date (Jones et al., 2011).
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 13 September 2021
References
Carey, O. 2009 Coolnatullagh: a Beaker Period/Early Bronze Age secular and ritual landscape in the eastern Burren. Unpublished M. Litt thesis, National University of Ireland Galway.
Jones, C., Carey, O. and Hennigar, C. 2011 Domestic production and the political economy in prehistory: evidence from the Burren, Co. Clare. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 111C, 33-58.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.