What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Glasha Beg, County Clare: a subcircular earthen ringfort, about thirty metres across, on a gentle rise in undrained pasture and bogland. Its round-topped bank still stands best to the west of the road that cuts through it, while two narrow gaps at the south and south-east suggest cattle once walked across what people later called a fairy fort. The name may be joke, fear or wonder, but the shape is human: a made circle, worn shallow, still holding its line on the land.

On top of a gentle rise in undrained pasture and bogland. Hachured on the 1897 OS 25-inch plan and the 1920 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, with a roughly NNE-SSW running road crossing the W half of it. This subcircular rath (29.9m E-W; 27.5m N-S) is defined by a round-topped bank (Wth 2.3m; int. H 0.4m at N; ext. H 0.3-0.65m), which is best preserved to the W of the road, and a shallow flat-based external fosse (Wth 3-4.5m; D 0.1m). Two narrow cattle gaps cross it at S and SSE. The interior slopes gently to the S. Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 26 August 2022

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