Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Gleninsheen, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gleninsheen
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.08230, -9.12814
- SMR number
- CL005-102003-
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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
A rectangular enclosure (c. 31m x 28m) attached to the N of cashel CL005-102---- defined by a double-faced battered wall but much less substantial than the walls of the main cashel to the S reported to the National Monuments Service by Tim Bowmer. The N wall has three intact sections, 2, 5 and 8m in length (Wth 1.2m narrowing to 0.6m; H 0.6-2.2m). The wall construction was noted as being similar to CL005-101---- to the NW which Bowmer terms a ‘light-walled cashel’. These cashels/enclosures are situated within a large field system (CL005-104001-). (Bowmer 2019, 80, Appendix 1, No. 35)
The following image has been uploaded (photo: Tim Bowmer):
CL005-102003-_01.jpg View from NW. The three intact portions of the N wall are visible in the mid ground.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 12 February 2021
References
Bowmer, T. 2019 Rectilinear drystone cashel and enclosure settlements in the Burren, Co. Clare. The Journal of Irish Archaeology 28, 59–84.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.