Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Termon, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Termon
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.05235, -9.06533
- SMR number
- CL006-206----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In scrub on the lower SW slope of Gortaclare Mountain with Termon plateau rising to the NE. A number of possibly post-medieval field walls are indicated on the 1916 OS 6-inch map in a clearing c. 40m E of an enclosure (CL006-205----) but it may include earlier elements. The field system is visible on the OS 2005-2012 orthophotographs and was noted by Ros Ó Maoldúin.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 6 December 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Boulder-burialunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.