Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Glasha Beg, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glasha Beg
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.03805, -9.37438
- SMR number
- CL008-141----
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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 rough pastureland and limestone outcrops, within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL008-109001-) and in an area containing many cashels and enclosures. A subrectangular area (c. 56m WNW-ESE; c. 44m NNE-SSW) with rounded corners defined by a stone wall with possibly earlier foundations and visible on Digital Globe (2011-2013) and on OSi orthophotography (MapGenie 2013-2018).
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 29 March 2023
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.