Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Slievenaglasha, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Slievenaglasha
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.00982, -9.04827
- SMR number
- CL010-064056-
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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
On a terrace on a steep semi-karst S-facing slope, land falling very steeply c. 30m to the SSE. In rough pasture within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL010-064001-). This D-shaped possible hut site (6.9m E-W) with a straight E side (L 8.4m) is defined from SE to NE by a drystone wall (Wth 0.6-0.9m; H 0.2-0.5m) only a single course of which survives. The wall stones are laid transversely (i.e., with their long axes pointing toward the centre of the possible hut site). The E side is defined by a moss-covered drystone wall (oriented N-S) which extends c. 10m N to a bedrock terrace-face (H c. 2m). The W part of the interior is 0.3m higher than the E, due to a natural bedrock step. A semicircular drystone wall extends NW from the NW edge of the possible hut site, largely enclosing the sheltered space between it and the bedrock terrace to the N.
The following images have been uploaded:
CL010-064056-_01.jpg View from N
CL010-064056-_02.jpg Wider view from N
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 17 May 2023
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cairn - burial cairnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.