Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
An Carn Mór Thiar, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Carn Mór Thiar
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.30050, -8.88764
- SMR number
- GA083-079001-
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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
In an area of pastureland and exposed limestone sloping to the SW. A series of poorly preserved field walls visible on aerial photographs (https://binged.it/2oxnmh0 last accessed 29 March 2017) may be part of a possible field system associated with a concentric enclosure (GA083-079----) and an enclosure (GA083-080----). Though they do not form any coherent pattern a number of meandering and straight lengths of walls are visible over an area c. 300m ENE-WSW by 220m N-S. Most are visible in the field in which the enclosures are located but one stretch is also visible in the field to the N of the concentric enclosure. The walls are defined by spreads of tumbled grass-covered boulders. One section of walling (Wth 2.9m; H 0. 24m) extends southwards (L c. 40m) from the concentric enclosure then veers north-westwards (L c. 100m). Traces of walls also extend from the enclosure at ENE (Wth 2.45m) and SE. Another levelled field wall, running roughly N-S across the field, is visible immediately to its W.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 29 March 2017
Nearby in the register
- Concentric enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.