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Standing stone

Poulaphuca (Castletown ED), County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Standing stone, Poulaphuca, 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)
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-

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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 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

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

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