Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Poulawack, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Poulawack
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.03260, -9.14424
- SMR number
- CL009-032010-
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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
In rough pasture near the summit of a broad hill with wide views, and within a multiperiod field system (CL009-032001-). This is a partly damaged grass-covered subcircular cairn (diams. 12.1m N–S; 11.7m E–W; H 0.8–1.1m). The upper surface (diams. 5.6m E–W; 4.7m N–S) is quite level possibly due to spoil dug from a central crater (2.5m N–S; 2.4m E–W; D 0.4m) having been spread around and this disturbance had been noted previously (Coffey 1996, 58). A kerbstone (L 1m; Wth 0.2m; H 0.2m) is visible at E edge of the cairn. Stones lying flat on the cairn may be from field clearance. Poulawack cairn (CL009-032002-) lies c. 50m to the SW.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 30-9-2025
References
Coffey, T. 1996 Field notes. The Other Clare 20, 57-68.
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - burial cairnunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.