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Standing stone

Poulacarran, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Standing stone, 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
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.02485, -9.11476
SMR number
CL009-083003-

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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

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

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

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