Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - road/trackway
Gleninsheen, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gleninsheen
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.07666, -9.13295
- SMR number
- CL005-178----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Situated on the SW slopes of a hill. Listed as ‘Road’ in the RMP (1996) on the basis of information submitted in 1994 (pers. comm. T. Coffey). On inspection in 1999 this was found to be a narrow boreen of modern construction, formed in part of low banks with loose stone wall built on top.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 2 February 2016.
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.