Field system in Bellacagher, County Roscommon

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What is recorded here

On a shelf on the SW-facing slope of a NW-SE ridge. An area of about 19 acres (c. 7.5 ha) contains relict field banks (Wth 3.5-4m; H 0.3-0.5m) running NE-SW creating rectangular fields (dims c. 200m x c. 100m), and a field bank of the system overlies rath (RO034-054----).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO034-099

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