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Field boundary

Inishlyon, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Field boundary, Inishlyon, County Galway, 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
Inishlyon
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.61103, -10.17035
SMR number
GA009D040----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1841 · 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

Located close to the S shore of Inishlyon c. 40m E of a house site (GA009D039----) the remains of this field boundary comprise a series of partly-buried stones that run in a NNE direction from the shoreline and terminate at an outcrop of rock. A number stones, some quite large, have been displaced due to storm and wave action. The land to the E this field wall is bogland while that to the W along the shore is more fertile (pers. comm. Erin Gibbons, 29 October 2015).

GA009D040----_01.jpg View of the wall looking NNE (photograph courtesy of E. Gibbons, taken 1 October 2015).

Compiled by: Paul Walsh

Date of upload: 2 November 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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