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Ringfort - cashel

Glasha Beg, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Glasha Beg, 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
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.03695, -9.37548
SMR number
CL008-127----

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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 rough pastureland with outcropping limestone, within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL008-109001-). This subcircular cashel (int. dims. 15.8m E-W; 15.5m N-S) is defined by a low collapsed stone wall (Wth 1.9-2.5m; int. H 0.35-0.55m; ext. H 0.25-0.45m). Several upright stone slabs set along the inner edge of the wall at the NE and SSW may be the remains of an inner wall-face. Collapsed field walls radiate from the cashel perimeter.

The following image has been uploaded:
CL008-127----_01.jpg View from S.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott

Date of revision: 25 April 2023

Nearby in the register

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

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