Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Mullaghardagh, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mullaghardagh
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.48977, -8.22680
- SMR number
- RO044-083001-
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
Towards the top of a N-facing slope with limestone outcrop. A grass and scrub-covered area of about 12 acres (c. 5 ha) has relict field walls defined by stone spreads (Wth c. 2m; H c. 0.5m) or earthen banks (Wth 1.5m; H 0.5m) forming subrectangular fields of c. 0.2 ha -1 ha. The fields are associated with lazy beds, a subrectangular enclosure (RO044-083005-) (int. dims 21m N-S; 10m E-W) and two house sites (RO044-083003-; RO044-083004-) (ext. dims 9m N-S; 5m E-W: 5m x 4m), and the field walls partly overlie cashel (RO044-083002-).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.