Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Glasha Beg,glasha More, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glasha Beg,glasha More
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.03911, -9.37342
- SMR number
- CL008-013006-
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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
In undulating rough pasture and outcropping limestone pavement, within a large multiperiod field system (CL008-109001-). This circular platform (diam. 11m) is defined by a scarp (H 0.1m at N; max. H 1m at S). A spread of collapsed material (Wth 1-2m) lies on either side of it. The interior is level. Two other cashels (CL008-013002- and CL008-013001-) c. 31m to the E and c. 54m to the NE respectively.
The following image has been uploaded: CL008-013006-_01.jpg View from SE
Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 23 August 2022
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 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.