Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Gleninsheen, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gleninsheen
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.07213, -9.13142
- SMR number
- CL005-158001-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated at the base of a fairly steep rocky ridge with restricted visibility. Listed as ‘Rectangular enclosure, possible’ in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996) and visible as a large field on the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map. On inspection in 1998 this was found to be a roughly rectangular area (c. 58m NW-SE; c. 67m SW-NE) defined by an apparently modern drystone wall with the remains of a rectangular building in the SE corner and an area (diam. c. 26m) delimited by a curving modern wall in the SW corner.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 2 February 2016
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.