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 (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.06806, -9.14032
- SMR number
- CL005-146----
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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
In exposed elevated rocky pasture with clear views in all direction. Within a multiperiod field system (CL005-104001-). Depicted as an enclosure on the 1916 OS 6-inch map. A subrectangular area (33m N-S; 26m E-W) defined by a wall (Wth 1.4-2.1m) with traces of potentially older outer wall-facing at ESE (H 1m) and SE (1.5m). There is an alcove in the inside of the wall at NW. Machine-made gaps are present at SW and NE with a smaller gap at WSW. A curving bank across the S corner of the enclosure creates a small internal triangular subdivision (c. 10m E-W; c. 2m N-S).
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell
Date of upload: 21 October 2025
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.