What is recorded here

Indicated is a field system in Carroweighter, County Roscommon, Ireland. The expanded graveyard of Oran church destroyed northern earthworks marked on the 1929 map and described by O'Donovan around 1837 as house foundations. About 18 acres of the system survive between the graveyard and rath, preserving a rectangular enclosure with attached house site and extensive field banks.

Towards the bottom of the S-facing slope at the SE end of a NW-SE ridge. The expanded graveyard of Oran church (RO034-080001-) has destroyed earthwork features to the N, marked on the 1929 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and described by O'Donovan c. 1837 as house foundations (O’Flanagan 1931, vol. 1, 61), but traces of a field system covering about 18 acres (c. 7.5 ha) survive in the fields between the graveyard (RO034-080002-) and rath (RO034-081001-). It consists of a rectangular enclosure (RO034-081004-) (int. dims 25m ENE-WSW; 12.5m NNW-SSE) defined by earthen banks (Wth 1.5m; H 0.25-0.35m) on all sides except the SW, with a house site (RO034-081005-) (dims 5.6m x 5.4m) attached to the outside of the bank at NW. Field banks extend NW, NE and S from the corners of the rectangular enclosure, and two other E-W field banks connect with the N-S bank, creating large fields (dims c. 150m E-W; c. 50m N-S). At the N of the extent smaller fields are present. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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