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Field system

Kilcloony (Dunmore By.), County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Field system, Kilcloony, 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
Kilcloony (Dunmore By.)
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.59021, -8.86111
SMR number
GA016-137003-

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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

In pastureland. FitzPatrick (2019, 25-6) noted a series of small fields and plots, on LiDAR imagery, surrounding a cashel (GA016-0137----) and extending over an area c. 150m WNW-ESE and c. 115m NNE-SSW. Their small size and organic form suggest that they are part of a field system associated with the possible rectangular building (GA016-137002-) visible in the W half of the interior of the cashel. The latter feature may be a late medieval addition to the cashel.

Compiled by: Olive Alcock

Date of upload: 7 December 2022

References

FitzPatrick, E. 2019 A settlement of the Uí hUiginn poets and its landscape setting Kilcloony, county Galway Cill Chluaine, Conmhaicne Mac Fheóruis. Internal Milltown Heritage Group report. Unpublished.

Nearby in the register

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

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