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Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb

Poulaphuca (Castletown ED),Sheshodonnell East, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb, Poulaphuca, Sheshodonnell East, 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
Poulaphuca (Castletown ED),Sheshodonnell East
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.01792, -9.08498
SMR number
CL010-047009-

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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 an elevated site in rough pasture, within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL009-084001-). This poorly preserved wedge tomb (est. L c. 3m E-W; Wth c. 2m N-S) is aligned E-W and stands in the centre of a low, oval-shaped mound (H 0.6-0.9m: diams. 13m E-W; 9m N-S). The remains consist of a large, N sidestone (L 2.95m; H 0.96-1.18m; T 0.1-0.23m) and three S sidestones opposite. One of the latter (L 0.6m; H 0.53m; T 0.11m) lies at the W, and another (L 1.45m; H 0.28m; T 0.12m) is at the E and is situated 1.65m S of the N sidestone. Immediately to the S of and parallel with this is another upright slab (L 0.85m H 0.3m; T 0.08m). The N sidestone and W end of the tomb are incorporated into later field walls, that at the W forming part of the townland boundary with Sheshodonnell East. There is a cairn (CL010-047017-) c. 195m to the S.

See attached images:
• CL010-047009-_01 JPG View from east, August 1999.
• CL010-047009-_02 JPG View from south, August 1999

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 24 February 2023

Nearby in the register

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

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