Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Glennageer, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glennageer
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1919)
- Coordinates
- 52.84683, -9.24247
- SMR number
- CL032-007----
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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
Situated on a NW-facing slope near the summit of a prominent hill in an area largely planted with conifers. A large circular enclosure (diam. c. 100m SW-NE) defined by a low, intermittently visible, grassed-over, earth and stone bank. According to the landowner the bank was built about 100 years ago by his grandfather.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 12 July 2016
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy well1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassified2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.