Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Barrinagh (castlereagh By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Barrinagh (castlereagh By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.70988, -8.69391
- SMR number
- RO032-009002-
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 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In a low-lying position NW of barrow (RO032-009001-). Knox (1911, 309, Fig. 4) describes an area of about 4 acres (c. 1.5 ha) which contained rectangular fields, defined by earthen banks and bordered by an NW-SE roadway (RO032-009003-) at NE, close to rath (RO032-008001-). No features are visible now at ground level in pasture.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Knox, H.T. 1911 The Croghans and Some Connacht Raths and Cashels. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 41, 93-116, 205-40, 301-42.
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - bowl-barrowunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.