Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Glensleade, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glensleade
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.05947, -9.14273
- SMR number
- CL005-141001-
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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 S edge of a limestone ridge in elevated rocky pasture with good views to the S and E. Within a multiperiod field system (CL005-227004-). Depicted as an enclosure on the 1916 OS 6-inch map. Noted by Westropp (1899, 380) as a ‘a very small circular fort, with walls 5 feet thick, and barely 3 feet or 4 feet high; the gateway faced south’. A subcircular cashel (21m NNE-SSW; 19.5m WNW-ESE) defined by a stone wall (Wth 1m). Segments of outer wall-facing survive from NW to NNE (H 1.7m) and at the WSW. Inner facing is only evident at the NNW (H 1.3m). The wall has been rebuilt around much of the monument. A gap at SSE (Wth 1.5m) appears to be original; breaks in the wall fabric at the NNE and WNW appear modern. A small internal structure (CL005-141006-) abuts the SE cashel wall. A rectilinear cashel (CL005-141002-) is located c. 15m to the SSE and another cashel (CL005-140001-) lies c. 110m to the NNW.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell
Date of upload: 3 November 2025
References
Westropp, T.J. 1899 Prehistoric remains in the Burren, County Clare. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 29, 367-84.
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.