Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Erris, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Erris
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.97786, -8.27104
- SMR number
- RO006-034001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Located on a gently undulating landscape. Two low grass-covered earthen banks (RO006-034002-) (L 150m; Wth c. 6m; H 0.2-0.3m) run S from it c. 100m apart, probably the remnants of an unmapped but not very ancient field system.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.