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Field system

Murrooghkilly, County Clare, Ireland

The record

Townland
Murrooghkilly
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
53.12724, -9.24416
SMR number
CL002-003001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

Situated in a remote level terrace on a S-facing slope with bare rock outcrop and scree upslope to N and downslope to S. A field system (c. 400m E-W; 200m N-S) with a number of enclosures visible on Digital Globe (2011-13) that likely contains medieval and possibly prehistoric elements.

The following image has been uploaded:
CL002-003001-_01.jpg OSi orthophoto 2013-2018.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney

Date of upload: 14 December 2020

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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