Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mass-rock
Gortaclare, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortaclare
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Poulataggart
- Latest-edition OS map
- Poulataggart
- Coordinates
- 53.07586, -9.05514
- SMR number
- CL006-095----
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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
At leading W edge of terrace on a steep W-facing slope of rough crag and patchy grazing. An oval hollow (c. 45m NE-SW; c. 30m NW-SE) is indicated on the 1842 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and named ‘Poulataggart’. Named ‘Mass Rock’ on Robinson’s map (1977). The mass-rock was not located during an inspection in 1997.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 29 September 2021
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.