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
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.07691, -9.12362
- SMR number
- CL005-305----
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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 elevated rough pasture on Ailwee Hill and within an extensive field system (CL005-104001-). A subcircular enclosure (c. 14m N-S; c. 13m E-W) defined by a grassed-over wall. Visible on OSi MapGenie (2012-2018) and noted by Ros Ó Maoldúin.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 21 February 2023
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.