Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Glasha Beg, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glasha Beg
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.03522, -9.37493
- SMR number
- CL008-152----
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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 with outcropping limestone pavement to the NW. This possible D-shaped enclosure (c. 21m WNW-ESE) with straight W side (L 14m) is visible on current aerial imagery (OSi digitalglobe (2011-2013) and Geohive MapGenie Imagery (2013-2018) as an overgrown wall. It may be associated with the enclosure (CL008-128----) c. 12m to the E. Reported to the National Monuments Service by Conn Herriott.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 3 October 2022
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.