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Field system

Larkhill, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Field system, Larkhill, 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
Larkhill
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
54.20339, -8.61425
SMR number
SL019-161004-

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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

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

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

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