Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Ballymahony,ballymurphy,kiltaan,lisnanroum, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymahony,ballymurphy,kiltaan,lisnanroum
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.02602, -9.18333
- SMR number
- CL009-013001-
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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
An extensive and irregular field system (c. 2.1km E-W; c. 1.2km N-S) occupying the greater part of Ballymurphy townland and associated with 7 cashels, 2 enclosures and a tower house ‘Ballymurphy Castle’ (CL009-013004-) and visible on Digital Globe (2011-13) and on OSi Aerial Premium orthophotographs (2012-2018). Some fields in the area particular immediately S of the tower house have been reclaimed.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 30 August 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.