Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Clooncallow, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clooncallow
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.56008, -7.74015
- SMR number
- LF027-043----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
OS aerial photographs (2005) show the extensive remains of a series of small fields with cultivation ridges enclosed by low earthen banks in an area of outcropping rock on the banks of the River Inny. These appear to be post-1700 AD in date. The large, irregularly-shaped platform which is visible on the aerial photographs is the remains of a natural hillock of outcropping rock. Possible remains of a sunken rectangular house (int. dims. 14m x 3m, D 0.4m) associated with field boundaries and cultivation ridges also appear to be post-1700 AD in date. However this sunken feature may just be the remains of an open-cast quarry as there are no definite wall-footings visible. This possible building along with small fields and a lime-kiln are indicated on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and are probably of post-1700 AD date..
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fish-pondunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.