Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cist
Poulaphuca (Castletown ED), County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Poulaphuca (Castletown ED)
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.01608, -9.08517
- SMR number
- CL010-047008-
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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 on the N side of a cairn (CL010-047017-), this rectangular cist (0.9m NW-SE; 0.8m NE-SW; max. D 0.8m) is lined on its long, NE side by a slab (0.9m NW-SE; H 0.55m) while the rest of the stone lining (if extant) is covered by grass and moss.
Compiled by: Conn Herriott and Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 24 February 2023
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - burial cairnunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.