Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Holed stone
Poulnalour, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Poulnalour
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.00850, -9.03180
- SMR number
- CL010-108005-
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
Situated within a graveyard (CL010-108003-) 3m from its SW edge. The tallest stone in the graveyard, this holed stone (H.48m) is a simple, undressed, upright limestone slab (H 0.48m) containing a natural hole (diam. 8cm) near its top. Otherwise the stone is heavily moss-covered and appears featureless. Swinfen (1992, 139) described this stone as containing two holes, and she suggested such stones ‘were connected with ancient curative superstitions.’ Sheehan (1982, 36) noted that these sorts of stones are quite commonly found at early church sites. There is a church (CL010-108002-) just to the N, situated in the W side of the graveyard.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 28 June 2023
References
Swinfen, A. 1992 Forgotten stones: Ancient church sites of the Burren and environs. Dublin. Lilliput Press.
Sheehan, J. 1982 The early historic church-sites of North Clare. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 24, 29-47.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Religious house - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.