Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - burial cairn
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, -9.08519
- SMR number
- CL010-047017-
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 elevated ridge in rough pasture with panoramic views, within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL009-084001-). This mostly grass-covered, subcircular stone cairn (12m N-S; 10m E-W; H 0.6-1.1m) has a cist (CL010-047008-) on its N side. There is a standing stone (CL010-047012-) c. 178m to the WSW, and a wedge tomb (CL010-047009-) c. 195m to the N.
See attached image: CL010-047017_01 JPG Aerial view of site from the east (photo. Markus Casey, March 2007).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 24 February 2023
Nearby in the register
- Cistunder 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.