Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field boundary
Fínis, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fínis
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.29024, -9.81716
- SMR number
- GA077-042----
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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
Near the coastline at the SE end of Fínis. A possible mound (c. 13m N-S; 6m E-W) composed of sand and stone, with an exposed cavity (0.6m N-S; D 0.4m) on its surface, was brought to our attention in April 2012. On inspection it proved to be a field wall that had been built over a sand dune. The wall had subsequently collapsed, littering the dune with boulders. A similar field wall running across a dune is visible to the NW.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 1 May 2014
Nearby in the register
- Middenunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.