Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Abbey (tiaquin By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Abbey (tiaquin By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.44146, -8.74334
- SMR number
- GA058-004004-
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 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
To W and N of Knockmoy Abbey (GA058-004001-). It consists of a series of fields covering an area c. 550m NW-SE by c. 400m NE-SW. Defined by low grassed-over collapsed stone walls, some of the fields are rectilinear in plan and traces of cultivation are visible. (Topgr. Files, OPW; ASGAP 28:64-9)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 4/1989).
Nearby in the register
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Cistercian monksunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Mill - cornunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.