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Settlement cluster

Poulacarran,Poulcaragharush, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Settlement cluster, Poulacarran, Poulcaragharush, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Poulacarran,Poulcaragharush
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.02228, -9.13425
SMR number
CL009-075005-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In level pasture immediately NW of Carran Church (CL009-075001-) and Graveyard (CL009-075002-) overlooking the Poulacarran Valley to the E. Occupying an area of c. 2ha in two fields, separated by an ENE-WSW farm lane (which is recorded on the 1st ed. of the OS 6-inch map leading E to the valley ), with the N field in the townland of Poulcaragharush and the S field in Poulacarran townland.
The foundations of six houses are visible (CL009-075006- to CL009-075011-) as well as traces of two road/trackways (CL009-075013- and CL009-075014-) along with several field boundaries and drystone walls that are no longer maintained but are likely to be contemporary with the houses. A shallow (D 0.5m), flat-bottomed rectangular area (int. dims. 11m N-S; 7m E-W) with well-defined W, N and E edges may have been a quarry.
Five small cairns are visible to the S (CL009-075003- and CL009-075015-), SW (CL009-075016- and CL009-075017-) and just W (CL009-075018-) of Carran Graveyard. While they may be the result of – or have been augmented by - field clearance, it’s possible that some (in particular CL009-075003- and CL009-075018-) may have functioned as penitential stations associated with Carran Church?

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 24 August 2022

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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