Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Cloonybeirne (roscommon By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonybeirne (roscommon By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.74327, -8.20955
- SMR number
- RO028-161002-
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
On a low-lying karst landscape that steps down gently to the N. Grass-covered area of about 30 acres (c. 12 ha) contains relict field walls (Wth 1.5-3m; H 0.1-0.3m) which frequently follow the E-W steps of exposed rock outcrop. The fields are rectangular and fairly large (dims c. 50m x c. 30m to c. 100m x c. 100m) but become smaller (dims c. 20m x c. 20m) at the centre of settlement cluster (RO028-161003-). There is no evidence of ridge and furrow cultivation, but the settlement and field system are integrated and contemporary. The castle (RO028-161001-) is just to the E and is also probably contemporary. (www. discoveryprogramme.ie)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Settlement clusterunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.