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Field system

Feaghquin, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Field system, Feaghquin, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Feaghquin
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.81407, -8.85947
SMR number
CL042-190----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

Situated in a large field of pasture on the southern outskirts of Quin village and some 500m S of Quin Friary (CL042-027002-). An ancient field system visible on a Google Earth aerial photograph (taken 5 February 2009, accessed 4 March 2015). The field system includes a large D-shaped enclosure (c. 85m NE-SW; c. 80m NW-SE) with its straight side at NW. A subrectangular enclosure (c. 28m NE-SW; c. 22m NW-SE) is attached at the NE corner and a roadway skirts the E portion of the D-shaped enclosure. The monuments are also visible on Bing maps at http://binged.it/1BcFuju.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney

Date of upload: 4 March 2015

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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