Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Gragan East, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gragan East
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.07137, -9.17352
- SMR number
- CL005-089----
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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
A number of irregular fields were noted on an oblique black and white Cambridge aerial photograph (CUCAP BDM071; https://www.cambridgeairphotos.com/location/bdm071/) taken in 1970 immediately N of a set of later more regular fields. The irregular fields are at the N extent of a much larger field system (CL005-123002--) extending 3km S from just E of Corkscrew Hill as far S as Poulnbrone. Field systems with prehistoric and medieval elements extend over most of the Burren uplands. Those currently visible on aerial or satellite imagery are outlined for mapping purposes but it is likely that they continue under scrub in certain areas.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 25 August 2021
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.