Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Poulaphuca (oughtmama Ed), County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Poulaphuca (oughtmama Ed)
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.06148, -9.09331
- SMR number
- CL006-107----
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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 level area of rough patchy grazing and bare-rock pavement, within an extensive field system (CL005-160001-). The ground falls away moderately steeply to SE. Listed as ‘burial mound’ in the RMP (1997). A small low subcircular grass and moss-covered cairn of small stones (8m N–S; 7.4m E–W; max. H 0.5m) with a rectangular depression at its centre (2m N–S; 0.9m E–W; D 0.2m). There are two small stones (L 0.4m; Wth 0.1m; H 0.2m) set in the E side of the depression. These appear to be too small to be part of a cist or megalith and may be the remains of an internal revetment. A NW-SE mound wall lies c. 60m to the SW and a wedge tomb (CL006-035003-) is clearly visible c. 350m to the W.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 29 September 2021
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.