Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Farranyharpy, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Farranyharpy
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.23175, -8.74686
- SMR number
- SL018-051009-
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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
In rough to average pasture, in an area of sharply undulating terrain, located on a ridge top bordered at S-W by a fall of ground into a stream valley, and overlooked to E by the rising slopes of Red Hill. Listed as ‘earthworks’in the RMP (1995) on the basis of features visible in an aerial photograph (ACP V 203/133-2; Roll 127, print 32). The features visible in the aerial photograph cover an area of c. 130m N-S by c. 140m E-W and consist of ruined field boundaries, seams of natural rock-outcropping, and areas of quarrying. The field boundaries represent the fragmentary remains of a field system. At ground level, the field boundaries are apparent only as low, sod-covered linear rises (Wth 1-2m; H 0.3-0.75m) from which stones protrude intermittently. The remains are fragmentary, and it is not possible to trace a coherent pattern of ancient fields. The field boundaries skirt or abut a number of other monuments, including a megalithic structure (SL018-051001-), a cashel (SL018-051002-), an enclosure (SL018-051004-), and two possible hut sites (SL018-051006-; SL018-051008-).
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 28 January 2014
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.