Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Gortnadrass, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortnadrass
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.11770, -8.65935
- SMR number
- SL032-049----
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 'Field Wall(s)'. Not marked on either edition of the OS 6-inch map. In pasture, on the S-facing slope of a ridge. A small disused field system associated with cultivation ridges (lazy beds). This is probably post-1700 AD in date.
Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC
Date of upload: 11 January 2012
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.