Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Murrooghkilly, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Murrooghkilly
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.13361, -9.25724
- SMR number
- CL001-027----
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 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On the lowest western shelf of Murrooghkilly Mountain. A large multiperiod field system (c. 600m N-S; 150m E-W) visible on Digital Globe with possible prehistoric and medieval elements.This lies within a larger field system (CL001-033----) in the Caher River valley. Reported to the National Monuments Service by Ros Ó Maoldúin.
The following image has been uploaded:
CL001-027----_01.jpg Field system as visible on Digital Globe (2013)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 14 September 2020
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.