Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial mound
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
- 53.07547, -9.02759
- SMR number
- CL006-042017-
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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 a broad S-facing shelf on the lower slopes of Gortaclare Mountain and within an extensive field system (CL006-042001-). An oval grassed-over mound (c. 4m N-S; c. 3m E-W; H 0.25m at N, 1m at S). Visible on OSi MapGenie 2013-2018. A spring emerges from the terrace c. 10m to the SSW. A possible cist (CL006-042018-) lies c. 50m to the WNW. (Carey 2009, 124)
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 Unpublished M. Litt thesis, National University of Ireland Galway.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
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.