What is recorded here

Megalithic structure in Glensleade stands within a cashel in County Clare, Ireland. Westropp described a small cist with a slab partition in the centre of the garth, comparing it to strange little enclosures found in Irish, Welsh and Scottish fort floors. Later inspection found only loosely set upright stones forming a subrectangular feature, perhaps part of a house rather than a burial chamber. The place still holds that ambiguity, a small stone room remembered through changing descriptions.

Within a cashel (CL005-140001-). Westropp (1899, 379-80) described a feature ESE of the centre of a cashel as follows: ‘In the centre of the garth used to be a heap of stones suggestive of a fallen clochan. This is now cleared away, and only a small cist remains, 3 feet wide and at least 9 feet long, with a partition of slabs in the middle. This may have been one of those strange little slab enclosures to be seen in the floors of several Irish and Welsh forts and Scotch brochs’. This was listed in the RMP (1996) as a ‘Megalithic structure’ on the basis of the term ‘cist’. On inspection in 1998 the remains were found to consist of a number of loosely set upright stones (max. H 0.65m) forming a subrectangular feature (2m N-S; 1.4m E-S). The stones may have formed part of a house structure. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell Date of upload: 14 October 2025

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