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Field system

Drumcondra, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Field system, Drumcondra, 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
Drumcondra
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.20013, -8.37541
SMR number
SL021-113----

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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 included in the SMR (1989) but listed in the RMP (1995) and classified 'Field System'. Not marked on any edition of the OS 6-inch map. In undulating average pasture, broken by rock outcropping. A cashel (SL021-073----) is located within the limits of the field system. The system consists of a rectilinear grid of ruined field walls, surviving as low sod-covered stone banks (Wth 0.5-0.8m; H 0.3m). They appear to be associated with a ruined farmstead (shown on the 1913 edition of the OS 6-inch map), probably 18th/19th century in date, located c. 50m to SW of the cashel. The stone foundations of a cluster of small rectangular buildings can be made out beneath heaps of field clearance rubble. The grid of fields extends to E of the farmstead and are laid out axially along the natural contours in a series of roughly E-W lines (varying in width from 20-50m) with transverse sub-divisions. A connecting wall encloses the base of the knoll on top of which cashel (SL021-073----) is sited.This system dates to the post-1700 AD period.

Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC

Date of upload: 11 January 2012

Nearby in the register

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

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