Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Coolnatullagh (burren By., Oughtmama Par.), County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolnatullagh (burren By., Oughtmama Par.)
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.07926, -9.02397
- SMR number
- CL006-145----
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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
Situated in the Coolnatullagh valley on the lower slopes of Gortaclare Mountain. A circular enclosure (diam. c. 28m) surrounding a natural depression and forming part of one of three prehistoric ‘farmsteads’ in the valley (see also CL006-098002- and CL006-146----). Some slab wall divisions occur in the interior and a later slab wall enclosure is attached at E. A larger circular enclosure (diam. c. 80m) lies c. 110m to the W. (Carey 2008, 58; Jones et al. 2011, 41)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 16 May 2016
References
Jones, C., Carey, O. and Hennigar, C. 2011 Domestic production and the political economy in prehistory: evidence from the Burren, Co. Clare. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 111C, 33-58.
Carey, O. 2008 Coolnatullagh – A final Neolithic/Early Bronze Age secular and ritual landscape in the eastern Burren. In Comber, M. and Jones, C. (compilers) Burren landscape and settlement. An Irish National Strategic Archaeolgical Research (INSTAR) project. The Heritage Council.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Burial moundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.