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Field system in Bellacagher

Field system

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Field system in Bellacagher is a field system in Bellacagher, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies a shelf on the south-west-facing slope of a north-west to south-east ridge, where relict banks form rectangular fields about two hundred by one hundred metres. One bank also covers the rath identified as RO034-054.
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----). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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