Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Cashelmeehan, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cashelmeehan
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.69406, -8.18005
- SMR number
- RO035-043003-
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
Visible on aerial photographs (CUCAP: BDV 24-28), and situated on a flat karst landscape. An area of about 5 acres (c. 2 ha) contains field walls creating rectangular fields (dims c. 100m x c. 50m). It also contains cashel (RO035-043001-) and house sites (RO035-043002-; RO035-043004-). All features have been removed since 1996 (Bing c. 2013).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.