What is recorded here

Field system in Magheraghanrush OR Deer Park is a field system in Magheraghanrush OR Deer Park, County Sligo, Ireland. Deer Park contains a ten-hectare field system where straight earth and stone banks intersect at right angles around a wedge tomb. The surviving boundaries are 1.7 to 2.2 metres wide and 0.2 to 0.5 metres high, with occasional central limestone blocks on a slight south-southwest-facing slope.

Situated on a slight SSW-facing slope in elevated, gently undulating, rocky pasture. Not marked on any edition of the OS 6-inch map. The field system extends across approximately 10 hectares but is best preserved around a wedge tomb (SL015-053----). The relic field boundaries are made up of earth and stone banks (av. dims. Wth 1.7-2.2m; H 0.2-0.5m) with occasional large blocks of limestone set centrally in the banks. The banks are generally straight, orientated N-S and E-W and intersecting at approximate right angles. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 April 2011

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