Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Glasleck, County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glasleck
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.97774, -6.92121
- SMR number
- CV028-022----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Marked on all OS eds. Situated in the centre of a promontory jutting into Milltown Lough, c. 30m SE of a possible promontory fort (CV028-021----). An approximately rectangular area (int. dims, 72m NW-SE; 24m NE-SW) enclosed by a low earthen bank. Outside the bank at NW is a slight depression which may represent the site of a fosse.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008
Nearby in the register
- Promontory fort - inlandunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.