Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Coolnatullagh (burren By., Carran Par.), County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolnatullagh (burren By., Carran Par.)
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.07345, -9.02959
- SMR number
- CL006-042016-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Just N of a limestone scarp on a plateau at the head of the Cappaghmore to Carron valley and within an extensive field system (CL006-042001-). Described by Carey (1999, 122) as an oval area (c. 10m N-S; c. 7m E-W) defined by two curving mound walls that do not meet at either N or S. The walls (H 0.2m; Wth 0.5m) survive as faint traces under grass. At S the western wall straightens and continues SSW for 5m towards the edge of the limestone scarp. A wedge tomb (CL006-042009-) lies c. 100m to the NW. Mound walls are evident c. 120m to the N.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 14 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 Unpublished M. Litt thesis, National University of Ireland Galway.
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.