Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Marshes Upper, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Marshes Upper
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.98520, -6.38581
- SMR number
- LH007-153----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · 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
Traces of extensive medieval field system discovered during the development of playing pitches at Dundalk Institute of Technology (Excavation Licence No. 02E0008). Much of it covered and preserved in situ. (Mossop 2002)
References:
Mossop, M. 2002 Archaeological monitoring and investigations, Dundalk Institute of Technology, County Louth. Unpublished archaeological report. National Monuments Section, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 2 December 2011
Nearby in the register
- Habitation siteunder 1 mi
- Cremation pitunder 1 mi
- Hearthunder 1 mi
- Hearthunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.