What is recorded here

Fairy forts and phantom towers occupy much of Clare, yet Poulacarran holds a rare stone cashel. Its square walls, thirty-eight metres across, still break the grass near Carran Church. Smaller enclosures cluster beside it like forgotten rooms, perhaps ladder fields for goats or grain. The main chamber may have housed a family, resisted raids, or marked ownership before written memory.

Within a field system (CL009-074001-) stretching c. 800m S from close to Carran Church (CL009-075001-). A possible square cashel (c. 38m E-W; c. 38m N-S) visible on Digital Globe (2011-2013) defined by a stone wall, 3-4m broad at the SE corner, grass-covered elsewhere with a later field wall along the W side. The NW corner is enclosed internally. A similar-sized square enclosure is adjoining at the S (c. 37m N-S; c. 35m E-W) and a possible subrectangular enclosure is adjoining to the N (c. 42m N-S; c. 40m E-W). These may represent 'ladder' fields rather than a cashel proper. The S enclosure appears to have been built across an earlier field wall that extends across the enclosure diagonally from E to S. Another possible cashel (CL009-219----) lies c. 85m to the NW. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 6 Septembe 2021

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