Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Straduff, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Straduff
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.10190, -8.24960
- SMR number
- SL035-024----
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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
In undulating wet pasture, immediately N of Geevagh village. Traces of a relict field system, underlying the modern field system, are spread over a rectangular area c. 300m x c. 250m which is characterised by rock outcrops and bushes. In the NW quadrant is a roughly pentagonal field (c. 50m N-S; 55m E-W) defined on its W side by an earth and stone field boundary and elsewhere by a disused sod-covered limestone rubble wall (H 0.7-1.2m). Adjoining the NE side of this field is a roughly rectangular field (20m N-S; 20m E-W) defined by an earth and stone bank (H 0.3-0.6m). Two linear earth and stone banks (L c. 50m; H 0.5m) lie c. 150m to SSE. Traces of other field boundaries, visible in an aerial photograph (GSIAP, G 273-2), are not visible at ground level.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005).
Date of upload: 18 January 2008
Nearby in the register
- Structureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.