Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Bellacagher, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bellacagher
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.68401, -8.37250
- SMR number
- RO034-099----
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 shelf on the SW-facing slope of a NW-SE ridge. An area of about 19 acres (c. 7.5 ha) contains relict field banks (Wth 3.5-4m; H 0.3-0.5m) running NE-SW creating rectangular fields (dims c. 200m x c. 100m), and a field bank of the system overlies rath (RO034-054----).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.