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Cill Ráine, County Galway, Ireland

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Townland
Cill Ráine
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
53.34596, -9.18277
SMR number
GA068-077----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

On a knoll in woodland. A reported possible enclosure proved on inspection to be a substantial rambling field wall following the contour of the knoll. The wall is constructed of large boulders, now moss covered and heavily overgrown with undergrowth. It is wide and high in places (Wth c. 1.8m; H 0.8) and though it mainly survives in a tumbled state, coursing, as well as some inner and outer facing, is visible intermittently along some stretches. The wall appears to be delimiting a small field/paddock associated with the house and outbuilding shown to the N of it on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map. It is likely to be post-AD 1700 in date. A large heavily overgrown boulder in the SE section of the interior appears to be natural.

Compiled by: Olive Alcock

Date of upload: 27 March 2019

Nearby in the register

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

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