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In undulating stony pasture. A system of roughly rectangular fields indicated only on the 1914 OS 6-inch map. The boundaries of these are mainly earthen with a few of earth and stone. They are of fairly uniform dimensions (Wth 1.7-2m; H 0.5m) but vary greatly in degree of preservation. Killaraght graveyard (SL047-083002-) and the site of a church (SL047-08301-) are roughly in the centre of the field system. Immediately to SW of the graveyard is a faint pattern of two or three small fields (c. 14m E-W; c. 28m N-S) which are not indicated on any OS 6-inch map. An even more faint outline of a similar field pattern is evident to SE. A moated site (SL047-083008-) lies c. 50m W of the graveyard. The relict field system is now overlain by a grid pattern of N-S and E-W field boundaries. There is a mound barrow (SL047-083005-) c. 150m SW of the graveyard and another (SL047-083006-) c. 170m to NE, both also within the field system. In the same townland is a second field system (SL047-084003-) c. 300m to E.
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
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