Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Glasha Beg, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glasha Beg
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.02993, -9.36633
- SMR number
- CL008-017----
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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 top of a gentle rise in undrained pasture and bogland. Hachured on the 1897 OS 25-inch plan and the 1920 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, with a roughly NNE-SSW running road crossing the W half of it. This subcircular rath (29.9m E-W; 27.5m N-S) is defined by a round-topped bank (Wth 2.3m; int. H 0.4m at N; ext. H 0.3-0.65m), which is best preserved to the W of the road, and a shallow flat-based external fosse (Wth 3-4.5m; D 0.1m). Two narrow cattle gaps cross it at S and SSE. The interior slopes gently to the S.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 26 August 2022
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.