Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Brees, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Brees
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.77596, -9.06748
- SMR number
- MA091-010001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture in undulating terrain, adjacent to Brees castle, an Anglo-Norman masonry castle (MA091-10----).
Fragmentary remains of a grid of rectilinear fields extend over an area of c. 200m N−S by c. 170m E−W. The intact outline of at least four individual fields (max dim. 45-50m) can still be traced. The fields are defined by drystone walls, now ruined and grassed over, and enclose relict cultivation ridges on a roughly NE−SW axis. Brees castle occupies a prominent knoll towards the SE extent to the field system. While it is possible that some of the field walls may be contemporary with the castle, it seems more likely that the field system relates to an 18th/19th-century farmstead, which was located c. 30m N of the castle and is shown on the 1838 and 1920 OS 6-inch maps.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 7 February 2022
Nearby in the register
- Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castleunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Castle - ringworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.