Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Lettreen, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lettreen
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.79761, -8.10416
- SMR number
- RO023-220----
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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
First identified in an unpublished archaeological LiDAR report (Davis, 2015) commissioned by Roscommon County Council as part of the Environmental Impact Assessment for the N5 Ballaghaderreen - Scramoge road development. It is located on a SW-facing slope. An area of about 4.5 ha (c. 11 acres) contains field banks of a regular form (Wth 2-2.7m; H 0.2-0.35m) with no accompanying ditches. The banks form small, rectangular or irregularly-shaped fields or paddocks (dims c. 30m x 10m to c. 70m x 30m) with no evidence of lazy-bed cultivation. There is one possible house (dims 14m NE-SW; c. 5m NW-SE) defined by earthen banks at the centre of a cluster of smaller paddocks towards the SE end of the fields, and there may be shallow quarrying at the N end of the area.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 8 August, 2016
References
Davis, S. 2015 N5 Strokestown - Ballaghderreen preferred route corridor: Lidar assessment. unpublished report for Roscommon County Council: UCD School of Archaeology
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.