Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Bunowna, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bunowna
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.28791, -8.95156
- SMR number
- SL011-143003-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 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
In gently undulating coastal grassland, immediately NE of Easkey village. Ground falls very gently for 300m to N ending at a rocky shoreline. The Easkey River lies to E, opening into the sea c. 500m to NE. A fragmentary field system extends over an area of c. 300m N–S by c. 400m E-W, across three adjacent modern rectangular fields. The field boundaries, which follow roughly N–S, E–W and NE–SW axes, have been levelled and can be traced intermittently as barely discernible surface undulations, mostly visible only at an oblique angle. Several field boundaries intersect but the complete outlines of individual fields can not be traced. Incorporated into the field boundaries towards the NE of their extent, are a circular enclosure (SL011-143----) and a subrectangular enclosure (SL011-143002-).
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 23 April 2014
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.