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Field boundary

Tooreen East, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Field boundary, Tooreen East, 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
Tooreen East
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
53.16640, -8.91233
SMR number
GA113-193----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 rough pastureland. A series of field walls curving roughly from NE through S to N and possibly mirroring the outline of a ringfort (c. 47m NE-SW; c. 38m NW-SE) are indicated on the 1922 edition of the OS 6-inch map and are also visible on an aerial photograph (CUCAP AHJ 24) taken in June 1963. Another NNE-SSW running field boundary cut through it from N to SSE. On inspection all the field walls, apart from the NNE-SSW running one, had been cleared away. The current evidence is insufficient to warrant accepting this as an archaeological monument.

Compiled by: Olive Alcock

Date of upload: 11 July 2019

References

CUCAP - Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photographs. Unit for Landscape Modelling, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. See:https://www.cambridgeairphotos.com

Nearby in the register

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

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