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Field system

Carrigans Upper, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Field system, Carrigans Upper, 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
Carrigans Upper
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.10190, -8.49895
SMR number
SL033-060001-

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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)
  • 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In undulating rocky pasture, on a slight SE-facing slope. Immediately to E of two house sites (SL033-060002-; SL033-060004-) and another relict field (SL033-060003-). A pentagonal field (20m N-S; 22m E-W) defined by an earth and stone bank (int. H 0.35m; ext. H 0.45m) with an external fosse (D 0.4m) or drain on the NE, SE, SW and NW sides. The N side is defined by a WSW-ENE relict field bank (int. H 0.65m) with a relict drain (D 0.7m) on its N side. The interior slopes gently down to S and is gently undulating. The natural ground level immediately to N of the field is higher than that of the interior. A short stretch of a relict field bank abuts the field at S. The banks enclosing this area are exactly similar in form to the relict field banks visible across the area. This enclosure appears to be a small relict field being part of the more extensive field system. Similar small relict fields are visible on the ground and the RMP (1995) map to the E and SE of this site. This is part of a larger field system (SL033-070----).

Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC with revisions by Patrick F. O'Donovan and Paul Walsh

Date of upload: 20 June 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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