Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Caherfadda,commons North,leana,parknabinnia,ballyline (burren By.),moygowna,creevagh (burren By.),clooncoose, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caherfadda,commons North,leana,parknabinnia,ballyline (burren By.),moygowna,creevagh (burren By.),clooncoose
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.98584, -9.10078
- SMR number
- CL017-180----
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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
Situated on Roughan Hill on the E edge of the Burren. Survey and excavation in this area (Jones et al. 2011, 33-58) have revealed a prehistoric landscape. Farms (CL016-167003-, CL016-173---- and CL016-174----, CL016-175---, CL016-176----), indicated by conjoined and overlapping, irregular, curvilinear enclosures, as well as cairns and megalithic tombs lie within a field system (c. 2.5km N-S, c. 1.5km E-W) comprised of many sections of prehistoric mound wall. (Jones 2008, 42-53)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 7 July 2021
References
Jones, C., Carey, O. and Hennigar, C. 2011 Domestic production and the political economy in prehistory: evidence from the Burren, Co. Clare. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 111C, 33-58.
Jones, C. 2008 Roughan Hill prehistoric landscape. In Comber, M. and Jones, C. (compilers) Burren landscape and settlement. An Irish National Strategic Archaeolgical Research (INSTAR) project. The Heritage Council.
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.