Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Larkhill, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Larkhill
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.20339, -8.61425
- SMR number
- SL019-161004-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Listed in both the SMR (1989) and RMP (1995) and classified as 'Field System'. A number of roughly parallel walls which extend upslope on a roughly N-S axis (as indicated on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map) are crossed on an E-W axis by numerous drystone walls and form small rectangular fields (as indicated on the 1913 edition of the OS 6-inch map). The fields are associated with a number of ruined rectangular stone-built huts and houses. Many of the fields are laid out to conform with the natural terraces of the mountain slope. Two passageways, flanked by stone walls, follow a curving roughly N-S line through the fields. There are three enclosures for holding animals (SL019-161001-, SL019-161002-, SL019-161003-) and a rath (SL019-162----) within the field system. Upon inspection in 1994 it was concluded that the field system and the enclosures for holding animals noted above, date to the post-1700 period.
Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC
Date of upload: 21 November 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.