Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Feaghquin, County Clare, Ireland
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----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- House - medievalunder 1 mi
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.