Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
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
- 53.06309, -9.09359
- SMR number
- CL006-177----
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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 NE-facing slope on rough pasture with much exposed karst, overlooking a valley to the N. A field system (c. 190m N-S: c. 320m NE-SW) immediately adjacent to the N and W of an enclosure (CL006-176----) and comprising several irregular fields of varying sizes and shapes. Visible on Digital Globe (2011-2013) and OSi Aerial Premium (2012-2018) and noted by Ros Ó Maoldúin. This field system is within a much larger field system (CL005-160001-) stretching along the Burren uplands from Poulbaun at N to Rannagh West at S.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 22 November 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.