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Ringfort - cashel

Glasha Beg,Glasha More, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Glasha Beg, 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 Beg,Glasha More
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.03868, -9.37030
SMR number
CL008-014----

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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

In undulating pastureland and outcropping limestone pavement, with higher ground to the NE, within a large multiperiod field system (CL008-109001-). Listed as 'Enclosure' in the RMP (1996). This truncated subcircular cashel (23m N-S; 17m E-W) is defined by a collapsed and grass-covered stone wall (original Wth 1.1m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.35m) and associated tumble (Wth 1.8-1.9m). The inner wall-face is visible intermittently, surviving up to two courses in height. The townland field boundary, oriented NW-SE, cuts across the limits of the SW quadrant of the interior; faint traces of a fosse and earthen bank are visible beside it. The interior is slightly concave. There is an enclosure (CL008-013003-) c. 94m to the NNW and a cashel (CL008-013002-) c. 108m to the WNW.

Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 24 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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