Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Keelhilla, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Keelhilla
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.08252, -8.99043
- SMR number
- CL006-168----
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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 an E-facing slope in rough karst. A field system of likely multiperiod date. A number of field walls at the SW extent form a fairly rectilinear pattern but apparently of slab wall formation. A possible burial ground (CL006-027----) lies at the SW end. Two fulachtaí fia (CL006-028002- and CL006-028003-) and a holy well (CL006-028001-) lie at the E extent where the karst slope meets reclaimed pasture. This field system was brought to the attention of the National Monuments Service by Ros Ó Maoldúin.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 4 May 2021
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.