Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Poulaphuca (castletown Ed),sheshodonnell East, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Poulaphuca (castletown Ed),sheshodonnell East
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.02097, -9.08683
- SMR number
- CL010-052----
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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
Near the top of a SE slope in undulating mixed improved pasture and scrub. Indicated on both the first (1842) and Cassini (1920) editions of the OS 6-inch map. Described when inspected in 1999 as a partly levelled, subcircular enclosure (int. diams. c. 31m E-W; 28m N-S) defined NNE-ESE by a broad bank of earth and stone (Wth 4-5.5m; int. H 1m; max. ext. H 2.5m), with some of the material at its top possibly deriving from field clearance. A natural stony scarp ran NE-E and a modern wall overlay the perimeter at the N and S. The W half of the enclosure had been levelled the interior was stony and uneven.
Subsequent aerial imagery (e.g. DigitalGlobe and GeoHive Aerial Premium 2013-2018) suggests the enclosing element has been removed SW-N-SE but that the original enclosing wall may survive under scrub cover SE-S-SW where it form part of the townland boundary with Sheshodonnell East to the S.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 31 March 2023
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