Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Poulacarran, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Poulacarran
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.02485, -9.11476
- SMR number
- CL009-083003-
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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
On a shelf covered by dense undergrowth, overlooking the Poulacarran and Eanty valleys from SW to NE; the land slopes steeply c. 38m to NW. Noted by Westropp (1898, 360) as a ‘fantastic rock, somewhat resembling a human figure’, locally called Farbrega (fear bréagach; ‘false man’). An upright limestone slab (H 2m; Wth 0.8m; T 0.6m) with a rounded, pointed top and well-rounded edges, oriented N-S. Its base may be set into a gryke. It is integrated into a NW-SE drystone field wall. A cashel (CL009-083----) lies c. 41m to the SSE.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 12 April 2022
References
Westropp, T.J. 1898 Prehistoric remains in the Burren, County Clare (Carran and Kilcorney). The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 28, 352-66.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Cliff-edge fortunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.