Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Fanta Glebe, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fanta Glebe
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.99585, -9.23688
- SMR number
- CL009-179----
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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 flat low-lying pasture within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-059001-). This low subcircular mound (13.8m E-W; 11m N-S; H 0.2-0.6m) rises very distinctly over the surrounding field. Some field stones have been thrown on the centre of it. A cashel (CL009-087----) lies c. 172m to the E.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 4 May 2022
Nearby in the register
- Rock scribing - folk artunder 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.