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Ringfort - cashel

Gleninsheen, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Gleninsheen, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Gleninsheen
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Gleninsheen Caher
Latest-edition OS map
Gleninsheen Caher (1916)
Coordinates
53.07461, -9.13279
SMR number
CL005-100----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On the high W-facing slopes of a karst hill under rough pasture, with good views from SSW to N, within a multiperiod field system (CL005-104001-). Hachured and named ‘Gleninsheen Caher’ on the 1842 and 1916 eds of the OS 6-inch maps. A rectangular cashel (int. dims. 40m N-S; 36m E-W) defined by a largely collapsed, robbed out and rebuilt wall (H 1.1-1.2m; Wth 1m) with a faced entrance (Wth 1.8m; H of facing 1m) near the E end of the N wall. Patches of original outer facing are present at N (H 1.1m) and at the S end of the E wall (H 1.2m). The remains of a possible house (CL005-100006-) lie E of centre and a hut site (CL005-100002-) lies inside the W wall. Two other hut sites with modern walls built on remnants of older structures (CL005-100003- and CL005-100004-) are in the NW corner and another (CL005-100005-) occupies the SE corner. A hut site located 6m north of the entrance is likely modern.

The following image has been uploaded:
CL005-100----_01.jpg View of cashel entrance from N

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin

Date of upload: 13 February 2023

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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