Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Carrownamorrissy, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrownamorrissy
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.25914, -8.66975
- SMR number
- GA096-181----
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
On level ground surrounding, but concentrated mainly to the NE of a castle (GA096-047----). A complex of small rectangular fields (28m by 18m max.) occupying an area c. 250m NE-SW by c. 200m are defined by low grassed-over stony banks. Several small rectangular houses (GA096-0181001-) are contained within the fields. The complex also contains a possible enclosure (GA096-182----).
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey UCG
Date of upload: 23 March 2017
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.