Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
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
- 53.07172, -9.03871
- SMR number
- CL006-042019-
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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
Prominently sited on a hillock in a fertile valley at the SE foot of Gortaclare Mountain. A rectangular area (int. dims. 10m E-W; Wth 1.6m) defined at S, W and N by a low but wide grassed-over stony bank, possibly representing the remains of a church. Several large unworked boulders are dumped on the interior at E as a result of field clearance. Described by Carey (2008, 55) as an oval cairn (max. diam. 18m E-W) with a large oval-shaped depression. A children's burial ground (CL006-042006-) is named on the OS 6-inch maps in this area and may be represented by some flags lying c. 3m to the NE.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 14 September 2021
References
Carey, O. 2008 Coolnatullagh – A final Neolithic/Early Bronze Age secular and ritual landscape in the eastern Burren. In Comber, M. and Jones, C. (compilers) Burren landscape and settlement. An Irish National Strategic Archaeolgical Research (INSTAR) project. The Heritage Council.
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.