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Enclosure

Poulacarran, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Poulacarran, 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
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
53.02318, -9.11764
SMR number
CL009-081002-

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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

Surrounding a cliff-edge fort (CL009-081----) from N to W, on a shelf covered by hazel wood, overlooking the Poulacarran and Eanty valleys from SW to NE; the land slopes almost vertically (H c. 20m) immediately to the NW. Indicated on the 1842 and 1920 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. Westropp (1911, 360) considered this ‘slight, defaced structure’ to be ‘either very late or rudely built’. This hazel-covered suboval enclosure (c. 95m NNE-SSW; c. 54m WNW-ESE) is defined by a double-faced stone wall (Wth at S 1.4m; H 0.6-1m) with internal and external stone spill. Although the stones are moss-covered, the wall does not look ancient. The interior slopes gently to E and S.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 12 April 2022

References

Westropp, T.J. 1911 Prehistoric remains (forts and dolments) in the Burren, Co. Clare (continued). Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 1, 343-67.

Nearby in the register

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

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