Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bawn
Glensleade, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glensleade
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.05475, -9.14878
- SMR number
- CL005-128002-
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
Surrounding a tower house (CL005-128----) and within a multiperiod field system (CL005-227004-). A rectangular bawn (25m E-W; 20m N-S) defined by a wall (int. H 0.5-0.6m; ext. H 1.4-1.8m) surviving at W and N built from roughly hewn horizontally laid limestone blocks. Its E line is traceable in rubble and as a scarp.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 5 April 2023
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.