Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Rathmoyle, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathmoyle
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.79011, -8.37294
- SMR number
- RO021-047----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
On the W and S-facing slope of a low rise. An area of c. 18 acres (c. 7 ha) contains the remains of earthen banks (Wth c. 2.5m; H 0.3m) and silted drains (Wth c. 1m) forming large rectangular fields (dims. c. 200m x c. 50-100m). One field bank truncates the perimeter of rath (RO021-065----) at the E of the complex.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Sweathouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.