Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
Gleninagh North, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gleninagh North
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1915)
- Coordinates
- 53.13566, -9.20626
- SMR number
- CL002-008001-
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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
On improved pasture c. 300m S of foreshore. A poorly preserved ecclesiastical enclosure (int. diam. 98m N–S) traceable SE-N. Defined by a low earthen bank (H 1m; W 2m) faced internally with a later stone wall (H 1.6m; W 0.4m) at SE and a low scarp (H 0.9m; Wth 2m) and later field wall (H 0.9–1.5m; Wth 0.5–1.2m) SW-N. A later graveyard wall and roadway have removed all trace between S and SW. A road and modern house appear to have removed the sections from N-SE. A rectangular graveyard (CL002-008003-) in its SW quadrant has continued in use into the 20th-century and contains a medieval church (CL002-008002-). A carved stone head (CL002-008007-) was recorded here in the past (pers. comm. Coffey 1994) but is now unlocated and presumed stolen. Two shell middens were also recorded; one (CL002-008005-) is inside the projected S edge of the enclosure, partially under the rectangular graveyard wall (CL002-008003-); the other is unlocated (CL002-008006-) and classified as possible. A rath (CL002-008004-) is located immediately E of the road bordering the E side of the enclosure and the layout of field to the W looks like a medieval addition. Gleninagh tower house (CL007-007001-) and holy well (CL007-007002-) are located c. 240m to the N and a cross inscribed graveslab (CL002-007003-) dated 1650 is built into Gleninagh lodge c. 90m N.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 1 December 2020
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Stone sculptureunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.