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Cairn - unclassified

Poulaphuca (Oughtmama ED), County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cairn - unclassified, Poulaphuca, 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
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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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 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

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

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