Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Gleninagh South, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gleninagh South
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.11885, -9.21095
- SMR number
- CL002-094----
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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
One of a cluster of enclosures on karst on the lower W slopes of Cappanawalla, within a curvilinear field system (CL002-075002-). A subcircular enclosure (diam. c. 47m N-S; c. 50m E-W) defined by a stone wall with a curving field boundary extending from N. A similar-sized enclosure (CL002-093----) lies c. 35m to the W and another (CL002-095----) lies c. 45m to the S. These monuments were noted on Digital Globe (2011-13) by Ros Ó Maolduin and reported to the National Monuments Service.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 23 November 2020
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.