Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Ardkeenagh (plunkett), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardkeenagh (plunkett)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.77265, -8.22378
- SMR number
- RO028-025001-
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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
On the S-facing slope of an E-W ridge. An area of about 100 acres (c. 40 ha) has parallel N-S field banks (Wth c. 3m; H c. 0.3m) with cross-banks creating fields (dims c. 200m x c. 100m) which are parallel with the current drystone-wall field system. It is later than the raths (RO028-26----; RO028-027----; RO028-028001-; RO028-028002-) contained within it, but some field banks do attach to rath (RO028-029----). House site (RO028-025002-) (int. dims c. 5m E-W; c. 5m N-S) defined by low banks (Wth 2.4m-4m; H 0.3m) is c. 50m WSW of rath (RO028-028001-), and house site (RO028-025003-) (int. dims 7.2m N-S; 4.2m E-W) defined by low scarps is attached to the W side of a N-S field bank c. 30m S of rath (RO025-028001-). Enclosure (RO028-031----) at its NE edge may be another field.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.