Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Money Upper, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Money Upper
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.99782, -7.21469
- SMR number
- LA018-068----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Aerial photograph (GB90.BL.26) shows cropmarks of a sequence of fosses defining a field system with curvilinear and rectilinear components, forming part of an extensive field system (LA018-067) integrated with a rectangular enclosure, probably a moated site (LA018-066). First recorded as a positive cropmark in July 1990.
The above report has been compiled by Dr. G.F. Barrett and supplied to the Archaeological Survey of Ireland.
Date of this report: 03 December 2009
Compiled by Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload/revision: 13 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.