Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
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
- 53.01533, -9.08761
- SMR number
- CL010-047012-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 an exposed, S-sloping ridge with panoramic views, within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL009-084001-). This tall, broad, standing stone (H 2.2m; Wth 2.55m; T 0.4-0.5m) of limestone is aligned E-W. It has a triangular-shaped profile, the top sloping downwards from E to W. It bears cracks/fissures on its N and S faces and its W end is more weathered than the E. Several fragments of the standing stone lie around its base at NE, E and W and there are two small sections of exposed bedrock nearby to N and S. A cairn (CL010-047017-) lies c. 178m to the ENE.
See attached images:
• CL010-047012-_01.JPG Viewed from north.
• CL010-047012-_02.JPG Viewed from south.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 24 February 2023
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - burial cairnunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 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.