Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Poulaphuca (Castletown ED), County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Poulaphuca (Castletown ED)
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.01664, -9.09277
- SMR number
- CL010-047007-
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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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Situated in an area of rocky grazing within a large field system (CL009-084001-/CL010-047001*. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). On inspection in 1999 this was found to be a large subrectangular modern enclosure defined by two straight and two curving drystone walls.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 21 March 2016
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.