Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Shankill, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shankill
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.83341, -8.22297
- SMR number
- RO022-034001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 E-W rise at the bottom of a S-facing slope. Three or four rectangular fields are visible on aerial photograph (OS: 4/2058) and vegetation marks of a rectangular field system covering c. 4 ha are visible on aerial photographs (GSIAP: M 658). The fields (dims c. 80m x c. 60m) have boundaries aligned on surviving field boundaries in the area. They are not visible at ground level in reclaimed pasture, but are not ancient.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.