Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Ballaghabawbeg, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballaghabawbeg
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.74931, -8.29593
- SMR number
- RO028-116003-
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
At the bottom of the NE-facing slope of a NW-SE ridge within the area of the pitfield (RO028-116004-). Some NE-SW relict field banks are attached to the S side of the E-W field bank incorporated in the S boundary of enclosure (RO028-116001-) creating large fields covering an area of c. 14 acres (c. of c. 5.5 ha), but within this there are also traces of a system of smaller rectangular fields (dims c. 50m x c. 50m) defined by low scarps and aligned N-S. The smaller fields may be associated with the houses (RO028-116002-; RO028-116005-; RO028-116007-).
See the attached aerial view taken from the NNE where some of the houses can be seen.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.