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Field system

Derryinver, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Field system, Derryinver, 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
Derryinver
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.58554, -9.98538
SMR number
GA010-006----

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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

On NW and N slopes of the ridge on which a stone row (GA010-003----) and prehistoric enclosure (GA010-005----) are situated. A pre-bog wall is traceable for c. 80m running WNW-ESE across the ridge summit, passing roughly at right angles through the centre of the stone row. A second stretch of wall is also traceable c. 100m to N of the enclosure, curving across the brow of the ridge from W through N to E. It disappears into uncut bog at either end. Both these walls have been the subject of palaeobotanical study and samples from directly beneath them have produced 14C determinations of 2370 ± 60 BP and 2390 ± 90 BP respectively. (Molloy and O'Connell 1988; Gibbons and Higgins 1988a)

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: 05 August 2010

Nearby in the register

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

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