Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Glasbolie, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glasbolie
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.55462, -8.14597
- SMR number
- DG103-082----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1881 map "Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1881 · Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 4. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, broken by seams of limestone out-cropping, located on the gentle S-facing slope of a ridge, providing excellent views E–SW of the surrounding hilly terrain. The N and E sides of the field are bordered by commercial quarry pits. Circular area (19.5m E–W; 17m N–S), with a gently sunken interior, defined on the perimeter by a ruined stone bank/wall (Wth 2m; int. H 0.45-0.55; ext. H 0.3-0.5m). The enclosing wall is largely sod-covered, with stones protruding from the sod in parts. At NW–N and at S–SW it is evident only as grass-covered undulation. At W it is truncated or overlain by a later field wall/property boundary on a NNW–SSE axis. The enclosure has a shallow, saucer-like profile. There are two possible hut sites (DG103-083----; DG103-084----) located 40m and 60m, respectively, to SSE.
Attached image:
DG103-082----_01.JPG viewed from NW
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 30 June 2015
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.