Poulawack Cairn

Standing at around 8ft high and some 70ft in diameter the Poulawack Cairn, pictured top left, was excavated by Harvard Archaeologists in the 1930s inside the cairn was a dry wall surrounding 6 cists, fourteen people had been buried here. The Cairn is a lot smaller than when Thomas J. Westropp surveyed it in the early 1900s he described it as 200ft in girth and 12 ft high.

Poulawack Souterrain

About 200 metres east of the cairn is the remains of a ring fort or rath with a Souterrain ( Artificial cave) the middle pic shows the entrance to the Souterrain and bottom pic shows the entrance inside the rath.

Situated: In the Burren region of County Clare, from Ballyvaughan take the N67 south, then a left turn onto the R480 travel south for around 8 Kilometres, at Caherconnel Crossroads take a right turn, about 1/2 kilometre along this road the tomb is sign-posted

Discovery Map 51: 233 985. Last visit August 2002.

Photos: Jim Dempsey.