Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Glasha More, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glasha More
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.03968, -9.37090
- SMR number
- CL008-013003-
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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 a rise in undulating pastureland and outcropping limestone pavement and within a large multiperiod field system (CL008-109001-); a trackway runs outside it to the E. Hachured on the 1897 OS 25-inch plan and the 1920 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. This subcircular enclosure (int. dims. 25.2m N-S; 20.5m E-W) is defined by a bank of earth and stone (Wth 5m; max. int. H 0.25m; ext. H 1-2m); ntermittent upright slabs possibly mark an inner wall-face or revetment. The interior is slightly concave and slopes gently to the SE. There is a mound on the edge of the interior at SSE and several low piles of field-clearance rubble at SW. There are a number of cashels in the vicinity: CL008-013002- lies c. 71m to the SW, CL008-013001- c. 94m to the W, CL008-014---- c. 94m to the SSE and CL008-016002- c. 114m to the ENE.
The following image has been uploaded: CL008-013003- View from SE
Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 23 August 2022
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.