Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Gleninsheen, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gleninsheen
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.07455, -9.13298
- SMR number
- CL005-100002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Abutting the W wall of a rectilinear cashel (CL005-100----). A roughly circular hut site (diam. c. 8m) defined by a wall (Wth 0.8-2m) with an entrance gap at SE (Wth 0.7m). There are three other hut sites (CL005-100003-, CL005-100004- and CL005-100005-) and the possible foundations of a house (CL005-100006-) within this cashel.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 13 February 2023
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.