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Field system

Knockroe (Idrone East By.), County Carlow, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Field system, Knockroe, County Carlow, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Knockroe (Idrone East By.)
County
Carlow
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
52.58327, -6.78600
SMR number
CW023-030----

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University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On the S slopes of Knockroe Mountain, in the Blackstairs mountain range. Identified as formerly part of a 19th-century system of long fields running roughly N-S down the mountains slope. This upper portion of fields has subsequently returned to open mountain grazing.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 10 August 2016

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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