Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Cloonisle, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonisle
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.42716, -9.82482
- SMR number
- GA051-007----
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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
In an area of poor-quality rock and scrubland at W foot of Cashel Hill, overlooking Cloonisle Bay to SW. An extensive series of dilapidated field walls laid out on a roughly NE-SW axis and covering an area c. 275m by 210m. Delimited at NW and SE ends by two enclosures (GA057-007001-, GA057-007003-).
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
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.