Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Courtwood, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Courtwood
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.08678, -7.08016
- SMR number
- LA009-053001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Aerial photograph (GB89.AI.32) shows cropmarks of a field system comprising two rectangular fields delineated by broad fosses attached to an enclosure (probably a plough-levelled ringfort (LA009-053) and forming part of a wider cropmark landscape comprising curvilinear and rectilinear components, one with a clear entrance, and a trackway.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.