Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Ballyfoyle, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyfoyle
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.91607, -6.94796
- SMR number
- LA026-037001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 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 photographs (GB89.W.37 and GB89.X.01) show interconnected curvilinear and rectilinear fosses indicative of a field system associated with a sub-circular enclosure.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.