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Field system

Doonflin Lower, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Field system, Doonflin Lower, County Sligo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Doonflin Lower
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
54.24068, -8.75700
SMR number
SL018-045003-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 4. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On a terrace of gently undulating pasture, broken in parts by rock outcropping, bordered at E by a river ravine. This field system consist of a regular grid of rectangular fields covering an area of c. 400m N-S by c. 250m E-W. At the E and SE there is a concentration of smaller fields (c. 55-60m NE-SW and 25-35m NW-SE) defined by low sod-covered banks/walls (Wth c. 1.8-2.3m; H 0.5-0.8m), covering an area of c. 200m N-S by 125m E-W. Abutting one of the field boundaries are the wall-footings of a rectangular two-roomed house (SL018-045002-) suggesting that some of the smaller fields represent garden plots associated with a small settlement. Towards the SE there is an area of relatively recent small scale quarrying (SL018-045001-). At its S end, the field system incorporates the enclosing elements of a ringfort/cashel (SL018-046001-). To W and N the faint outlines are visible of levelled field boundaries enclosing larger rectangular fields (c. 65-75 NE-SW; c. 80-150m NW-SE) with traces of cultivation ridges. The field system and the rectangular house appear to post-date the ringfort and may be post-1700 in date.

Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 27 January 2014

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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