Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
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
- 53.01166, -9.09209
- SMR number
- CL010-047014-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
On a S-facing slope in a fairly sheltered area in rough pasture, within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL009-084001-). This small subcircular cashel (int. diams. 17.7m NE-SW; 15.3m NW-SE; ext. dims. 21m NE-SW; 20m NW-SE) is defined by a collapsed, double-faced wall (est. Wth 1.6m; max. int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.4-0.75m) and associated spill (combined Wth 4-8m). There are two small alcoves in the inner wall-face W. The S alcove (H 0.28m; Wth 0.25m; D 0.65m) is 1.6m away from the N alcove (H 0.35m; Wth 0.35m; D 0.75m). In the SSW centre of the cashel’s slightly undulating interior is a possible souterrain (CL010-047018-). There may also be remains of hut sites around the edge of the cashel interior, mostly covered by the cashel wall’s spill. Grass-covered field walls radiate from the cashel at ENE, SE and W. Just outside the NNW side of the cashel is a hut site (CL010-047019-). There is a fulacht fia (CL010-211----) c. 57m to the SE and a hut site (CL010-278----) c. 108m to the SSW.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 27 February 2023
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.