Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
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
- 53.07331, -9.12214
- SMR number
- CL005-105----
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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 SW edge of a prominent elevated area overlooking a deep ravine to the SW within a multiperiod field system (CL005-104001-) and at the juncture of three townlands Gleninsheen, Aillwee and Boloona. Listed as ‘Potential Site Air Photo’ in the RMP (1996). A ring-barrow (diam. c. 31m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3-4m; H 0.3-1m) with traces of an internal fosse from ENE-SE and along the S and W (Wth 6m; max. D 0.9m), visible on OSi MapGenie aerial photographs (2012-2018). Walls built on its W and S banks serve as the townland boundaries with Ailwee and Boloona.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 21 February 2023
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.