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Designed landscape feature

Somerset, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Designed landscape feature, Somerset, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Somerset
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.24681, -8.23122
SMR number
GA099-180----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · 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 pastureland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as an enclosed roughly triangular-shaped
tree plantation; a N-S running roadway lies immediately to the W. On the OS 1:2500 plan (surveyed 1912-16) the enclosing wall is subcircular in plan, curving from NNW through E to S, and hachures are depicted off the wall from NE to S. On the 1946-7 revision of the 6-inch map only a line of hachures is shown curving from NNE to S; all the trees have been cleared away. On inspection in April 1983 only a natural mound of no archaeological significance was noted. The cartographic evidence suggests that this was most likely a landscape feature.

Compiled by: Olive Alcock

Date of upload: 10 July 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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