Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Achonry, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Achonry
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.06703, -8.64071
- SMR number
- SL038-016002-
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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 pasture. The remains of a field system, underlying the present field system, are visible in an aerial photograph (IASAP, 3033062-3) as linear and curvilinear field boundaries. No complete field can be identified in the aerial photograph or on the ground but traces of low earthen banks (Wth 4m; H 0.4-0.6m) are visible at ground level. These consist of an arc of earthen bank (C c. 30m) on the S side of a modern E-W field boundary from which a similar but straight earthen bank extends in a SE direction for c. 100m. A branch of this extending to SW, visible in the aerial photograph, is not visible at ground level nor is a continuation of the arc in a northerly direction. This field system is possibly associated with a circular enclosure (SL038-016003-) c. 40m to W. A second field system (SL032-188004-) lies c. 1km to NW in the same townland.
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
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.