Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Poulcaragharush, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Poulcaragharush
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.02924, -9.13094
- SMR number
- CL009-036002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 on a NE–SW shelf in a plateau, with higher ground to NW and sloping away in other directions, and within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-032001-). This small cairn (4.1m N–S; 4m E–W; H 0.4–0.9m) has a level surface (2m E–W; 1.7m N–S). A stone (0.8m N–S; 0.2m E–W; H 0.45m) with suboval cross-section protrudes up from the cairn at E. Poulcaragharush sink-hole lies c. 103m to E.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 2-10-2025
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.