Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Deerpark (shrule By.), County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Deerpark (shrule By.)
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.61457, -7.65799
- SMR number
- LF023-071003-
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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
On a low rise in unimproved grassland peppered with outcropping rock; within a walled deerpark (LF023-135----). The remains of this relict field system lie to the N and E of a cashel-like enclosure (LF023-071----) and associated houses (LF023-071001-; LF023-071002-). A series of low grass-covered drystone field walls radiate out for a distance of c. 15m from the enclosure from NW-N-E and run into a curving field wall which mirrors the curve of the enclosure. They form a series of small rectangular fields or paddocks (dims. c. 15m x 10m), some of which contain ridge and furrow cultivation ridges. The field boundaries consist of grass-covered earth and stone banks (H c. 0.5-0.7m; Wth c. 1m), in various states of preservation, which extend c. 150m to the NW and c. 50m to the E of the enclosure. The field system, cashel and houses all appear to be contemporary in date. (CUCAP, AVJ 51)
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 18 June 2012
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.