Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Glenquin, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glenquin
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.01903, -9.01589
- SMR number
- CL010-078----
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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 the SW end of a narrow spur (on the 300’ contour) in improved pasture. Not recorded as an antiquity on OS mapping but indicated on Robinson's map of the Burren (1977). Listed as ‘Cashel’ in the RMP (1996). This oval enclosure (int. dims. 38m N-S; 34m E-W) is defined by an almost levelled earth and stone bank (av. Wth 2.2-3m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.6-1.1m) which is lowest W-NNW, where it appears to be composed more of earth than elsewhere. Mature trees and bushes grow on the perimeter N-E-SW. The grass-covered interior slopes gently to the NNW.
An enclosure (CL010-077----) lies c. 230m to the NW and another (CL010-202----) c.200m to the WSW.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and by Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 10 May 2023
References
Robinson, T. 1977 (revised 1999) The Burren: a two-inch map of the uplands of north-west Clare. Map scale 1:31680. Roundstone: Folding Landscapes.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.