Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Poulnabrone, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Poulnabrone
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.04845, -9.14126
- SMR number
- CL009-034003-
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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
A number of mound walls, one of which extends E-W and abuts the portal tomb at Poulnabrone (CL009-034001-) form a prehistoric field system visible on Digital Globe (2011-13) and on OSi Aerial Premium orthophotographs (2012-2018). This is in turn part of an extensive field system stretching N as far as Corkscrew Hill. Extensive field systems with prehistoric and medieval elements extend over most of the Burren uplands. Those currently visible on aerial or satellite imagery are outlined for mapping purposes but it is likely that they continue under scrub and meet in certain areas.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 25 August 2021
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - portal tombunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.