Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Doonaltan, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doonaltan
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.26338, -8.89098
- SMR number
- SL012-003002-
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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
A low, curving, disused field bank (Wth. 3-4.4m; H 0.5-1.2m) extends S from a rath (SL012-003001-) for 52m along the spine of a naturally-occurring N-S ridge. It then changes direction and runs in an E direction for 35m. The outline of a levelled N-S bank, c. 20m E of the N-S bank described above, may be traced. Between 4m and 7m N of the end of the E-W bank is a parallel length of bank (L 15m). This arrangement may represent an entrance feature. There are two hut sites (SL012-003003-; SL012-003004-) built against the W face of the N-S bank and close to the intersection of the N-S and E-W banks.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.