Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Kilcorney, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcorney
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1916)
- Coordinates
- 53.03650, -9.15978
- SMR number
- CL009-021001-
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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 irregular field system (c. 1.9km E-W; c. 1km N-S) situated on a plateau S of Kilcorney Valley and visible on Digital Globe (2011-13) and on OSi Aerial Premium orthophotographs (2012-2018). The area includes many prehistoric and medieval monuments including settlement enclosures (CL009-021025-), a burial cairn (CL009-021020-) with an early medieval cist burial (CL009-021015-) inserted, a ring-cairn (CL009-021008-), a megalithic structure (CL009-021012-), a standing stone (CL009-009-218----), three unclassified cairns (CL009-021006-, CL009-021009- and CL009-021013-), 3 cashels (CL009-018----, CL009-021002- and CL009-021012-) and several enclosures.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 23 November 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.