Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Settlement deserted - medieval
Glashare, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glashare
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.78719, -7.51581
- SMR number
- KK008-145----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Immediately to E-SE of a tower house (KK008-026----) 'Glashare Castle' and a medieval church (KK008-027001-) and graveyard (KK008-027002-). Complex of platforms and enclosures centered on a hollow way and covering the entire field visible during a field inspection in 1987 and also on aerial photographs (ASIAP (176) 9-10, 3 March 2001).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 24 March 2018
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.