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
- 53.06922, -9.03106
- SMR number
- CL006-146----
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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 at the SW end of the Coolnatullagh valley. A C-shaped enclosure (diam. c. 30m) defined by substantial mound walls set within a field system (CL006-044003-) also defined by mound walls. The tops of occasional uprights are visible through the mound wall. This forms part of a farmstead, one of three prehistoric farmsteads in the valley (see also CL006-098002- and CL006-144----). Three cairns are closely associated with the farm including one that has been excavated (CL006-044001-), producing dates of 2460-2140 BC from a central cist and 1880-1610 BC from a secondary inhumation. (Carey 2008, 57; Jones et al. 2011, 41)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 16 May 2016
References
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.
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.
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - burial cairnunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.