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Field system

Ballyglass (Roscommon By.), County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Field system, Ballyglass, County Roscommon, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballyglass (Roscommon By.)
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.73689, -8.19046
SMR number
RO028-194006-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 fairly a fairly level karst landscape on the S bank of a W-E stream. An area of about 25 acres (c. 10 ha) contains numerous shallow quarries (dims c. 10m x c. 10m; D 0.2-0.5m) and the remnants of a field system defined by earth and stone banks (Wth c. 2-3m; H 0.2-0.5m). The rath (RO028-194001-) is within the area but probably pre-dates the field walls. The fields are large and curvilinear (dims c. 70m x c. 50m), but towards the E end there is a complex of smaller rectangular fields (dims c. 20m x c. 10m). There is no evidence of cultivation ridges, and the house sites (RO028-194002-; RO028-194003-; RO028-194005-) are associated with it.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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