Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Gleninsheen, County Clare, Ireland
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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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 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
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.