Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Middlequarter, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Middlequarter
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.62216, -10.22281
- SMR number
- GA009B015001-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a natural W-facing terrace in the centre of Inishbofin. A compact series of walls forming small fields which cover an area 100m square. Large regular blocks of stone are used in the wall construction. A subcircular house (D c. 6m), defined by a stone-revetted bank, is associated with it.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).
Date of upload: 09 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Water mill - horizontal-wheeledunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.