Field system in Abbeypark — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Yes. Priory field evidence exists beside Abbeypark. Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling recorded the Galway setting, while Fanning’s earlier observation preserved the shape of its banks. The answer is that Abbeypark still keeps a religious and rural landscape, even when parts of it have become blurred.

Surrounding a priory (GA088-001----). A number of D-shaped enclosures defined by low banks are visible to N of the priory. Fanning (1976, 121) notes that some of the banks appear to radiate from it as if dividing a large enclosure into smaller segments. However, no clearly defined traces of a monastic enclosure were observed. To S lies a less well-defined group of rectangular fields which bear little or no relationship with the priory; they may indicate 'later post-medieval field use' (ibid.). Some 200m to E, a low hillock appears to have traces of ridge and furrow cultivation. A small stony mound (N-S 4.8m, E-W 3m) is visible on its summit. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

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