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Enclosure

Coolnatullagh (Burren By., Carran Par.), County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Coolnatullagh (Burren By., Carran Par.), County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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
53.07241, -9.03189
SMR number
CL006-045007-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 a terrace on the S slopes of Gortaclare Mountain. Depicted as one of two enclosures on a plan of the area (Eogan 2002, 115). Some mound walls are adjacent to the S and the area is part of an extensive field system (CL006-0042001-). Described by Carey (2009, 132) as an enclosure (5m N-S; 7m E-W) defined by a ring of limestone boulders. The second enclosure (CL006-045008-) is 35m to the NE.

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 Unpublished M. Litt thesis, National University of Ireland Galway.

Eogan, J. 2002 Excavations at a cairn in Coolnatullagh townland, Co. Clare. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 42, 113-50.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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