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Field system

Lugbaun, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Field system, Lugbaun, 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
Lugbaun
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.21280, -8.63270
SMR number
SL019-153----

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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

Not marked on any edition of the OS 6-inch map. This field system of potential archaeological significance, identified from an aerial photograph (ACP V203/149-150, Roll 125; Pr. 17), survives only at the base and sides of a naturally-occurring depression and is further boxed in by modern field boundaries. Remains comprise an area (150m N-S; 150m N-S) forming a grid, aligned N-S and E-W, of small rectangular or subrectangular fields or plots defined by delepidated field walls (Wth 1.5-2m; H 0.5m). The central axis of the grid is formed by a NNE-SSW wall on a sinnuous line from which radiate a number of small field boundaries on an E-W axes. Incorporated into the grid at SW is a low hillock, whose top (c. 22m N-S; 11m E-W), may have been enclosed. A few metres E of this is a small, roughly circular area (8.5m x 7m) enclosed by a rough wall of very loose stone (Wth 1.5-2m). A short distance N of this feature at the junction of two walls is a small, area of wet ground, possibly a spring well.

Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan

Date of upload: 19 January 2011

Nearby in the register

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

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