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House - indeterminate date

Glasha Beg, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of House - indeterminate date, 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
53.03507, -9.37275
SMR number
CL008-151----

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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 a flat field of coarse pasture and scrub, with limestone paving to the N, within a relict local field system (CL008-004001-) and a larger multiperiod field system (CL008-109001-). A possible circular house site (max. diam. c. 8m) is visible on current aerial imagery (OSi Digitalglobe 2011-2013; Geohive MapGenie Imagery 2013-2018) as a low grassed-over collapsed stone wall. A cashel (CL008-011----) lies c. 23m to the NNW. Reported to the National Monuments Service by Conn Herriott.

Compiled by: Olive Alcock

Date of upload: 30 September 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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