Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Gleninsheen, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gleninsheen
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.06308, -9.14436
- SMR number
- CL005-139----
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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 slightly raised overgrown, rough grazing with views from NNW-NE-E, in a multiperiod field system CL005-227004-. This may be a ‘fort’ recorded by Westropp (1911, 371) and mentioned as having a ‘side annexe to the south’.
A subcircular cashel (diams. 26m N-S; 25 E-W) defined from S-W-NNW by an internally and externally faced but loosely built stone wall (H 0.8-1.6m; Wth 1-1.1m) of medium to large flat slabs laid on end, and elsewhere by a bank of stone (Wth 1-2.6m). A small semi-circular stone feature (H 0.4-0.7m) is built onto the inner wall face at SSW. The wall has been replaced or rebuilt in sections and at the time of inspection (1998) was very overgrown.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 29-9-2025
References
Westropp, T.J. 1911 Prehistoric remains (forts and dolmens) in the Burren, Co. Clare (continued). Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 1, 343-67.
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.