Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Mullagh, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mullagh
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.72883, -7.82576
- SMR number
- LF013-147----
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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
On a low hill in undulating pasture. Excavation in 2009 revealed evidence for possible medieval agricultural activity at and within a burial ground (LF013-146----). A series of linear gullies and shallow ditches aligned NW–SE was interpreted, largely on the basis of stratigraphic evidence, as the remnants of a field system that pre-dated the burial ground. The exposed length of the largest ditch was estimated at c. 90m. A second ditch (L 30m; Wth 1.4m; D 0.39m), curving at its W extent, was cut into by four of the graves. A series of isolated pits, post-holes and burnt spreads, of uncertain antiquity and function, were also excavated. A corn-drying kiln (LF013-148----) was also found at the W extent of the excavation (Hull 2009; Stephens 2009b, 2009c; pers. comm. M. Stephens).
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 22 November 2011
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Furnaceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.