House - indeterminate date, Gleninsheen, Co. Clare

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House – indeterminate date, Gleninsheen, Co. Clare

Gleninsheen, a valley tucked into the limestone plateau of the Burren in County Clare, is a place better known for what was found in its soil than for anything built upon it.

In 1930, a schoolboy discovered one of the finest gold gorgets, a type of crescent-shaped collar ornament, ever recovered in Ireland, dating to the late Bronze Age. Against that kind of prehistory, a house of indeterminate date, recorded as a monument but not yet fully documented, occupies a quieter register. Its presence on the archaeological record suggests it warranted attention, though precisely when it was built, who lived there, or what form it takes on the ground remains, for now, unspecified.

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