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
- 53.07272, -9.03189
- SMR number
- CL006-045008-
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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
At the foot of 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, 132-3) as an enclosure, the extent of which could not be ascertained due to heavy hazel scrub overgrowth. At SE a gap (Wth 0.5m) defined by 2 slabs (H 1m) may define the entrance. The second enclosure (CL006-045007-) lies c. 35m to the SW.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 14 September 2021
References
Eogan, J. 2002 Excavations at a cairn in Coolnatullagh townland, Co. Clare. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 42, 113-50.
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 Unpublished M. Litt thesis, National University of Ireland Galway.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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 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.