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Settlement cluster in Poulacarran,poulcaragharush

Settlement cluster

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Poulacarran, poulcaragharush is a shallow E-W hollow on a karst limestone plateau in County Clare, Ireland, where a grassed-over stone enclosure and small northern structures still appear in aerial images though no remains showed at the first recorded point. The place may have been a modest cluster of dwellings rather than a grand town, with people moving across open stone ground and marking their life in low walls that grass soon swallowed. Its identity is uncertain because the visible enclosure lies about 80m west of the listed point, but that uncertainty does not diminish it; it suggests a settlement that resisted easy description and may have been missed, displaced or simply hidden beneath thin vegetation.
In a shallow E-W hollow on a karst limestone plateau with thin grass cover. Listed as ‘Settlement deserted - possible’ in the RMP (1996) at ITM 524067, 697735. On inspection in 1997 no archaeological remains were found at that location. A subcircular enclosure (c. 27m N-S, c. 22m E-W) defined by a grassed-over stone wall is visible on Aerial Premium orthophotos (2012-2018) at ITM 523952, 697692 some 80m to the W. Several small structures are also visible immediately to the N. This may have been the intended location. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 21 June 2022

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