Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Oldtown (nethercross By.), County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oldtown (nethercross By.)
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.47120, -6.24492
- SMR number
- DU011-144003-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Geophysical survey (Licence no. 03R095) identified a field system associated with a large ecclesiastical enclosure (DU011-144001-) truncated by the Rathbeale road. Adjacent to the north east of the enclosure the field system consists of a network of sub-rectangular enclosures. The layout of the field system respects the boundaries of the main enclosure complex and mirrors the radials or internal divisions within. A knife recovered during test excavation (Licence no. 03E1080 Ext.) of the field system is comparable to that recovered within the enclosure complex indicating a possible contemporary date of use (Baker 2010).
Compiled by: Christine Baker
Date of upload: 4 February 2015
References
Baker, C. 2010a Occam's Duck: Three Early Medieval ‘settlement/cemeteries' or ‘ecclesiastical' sites? in Corlett, C. and Potterton, M. (eds.), Death and burial in early medieval Ireland in light of recent archaeological excavations. Research papers in Irish archaeology, no. 2, 1-23. Wordwell Press. Bray.
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Water mill - horizontal-wheeledunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.