Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Durrow Demesne, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Durrow Demesne
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.32457, -7.51582
- SMR number
- OF009-005026-
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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
Geophysical Survey carried out in 2000 and 2001 in the fields to the S of Durrow church (OF009-005013-) and graveyard (OF009-005009-) identified a possible rectangular shaped house with internal hearth that was associated with a possible field system (OF009-005026-) which may represent the remains of a small farmstead located outside the monastic enclosure (OF009-005003-) to the SE (O'Brien 2012, 121).
Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 29 April 2014
References
O'Brien, E. 2012 Rediscovering Columba's monastery at Durrow, Co. Offaly. In P. Harbison and V. Hall (eds.), A carnival of learning: essays to honour George Cunningham and his 50 conferences on medieval Ireland in the Cistercian Abbey of Mount St Joseph, Roscrea, 1987-2012, 111-124. Roscrea. Cistercian Press.
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Burial moundunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.