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Enclosure

Glasha More, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Glasha More, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

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

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