Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - indeterminate date
Gleninsheen, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gleninsheen
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.07247, -9.12839
- SMR number
- CL005-159003-
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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 the centre of a cashel (CL005-159----). The remains of a circular house (int. diam. 4m) defined by low grass-covered walls (Wth 1-2m) overlain by more recent drystone walls. The walls are lowest at ENE indicating a possible entrance. A hut site (CL005-159002-) lies c. 14m to the NW abutting the interior of the cashel wall.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell
Date of upload: 20 October 2025
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.