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Hut site

Gleninsheen, County Clare, Ireland

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Townland
Gleninsheen
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.06940, -9.13953
SMR number
CL005-314----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 the line of an old NE-SW field boundary in exposed elevated rocky pasture within a multiperiod field system (CL005-104001-). A small subcircular hut site (diam. c. 4.5m) defined by a grassed-over wall and visible on OSi MapGenie (2013-2018). A cashel (CL005-146----) lies c. 140m to the SW.

 

Compiled by: Mary Tunney

 

Date of upload: 24/10/2023

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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