Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Maine, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Maine
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.87874, -6.35495
- SMR number
- LH015-047002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on the low-lying ground of the estuary of the meandering NW-SE River Glyde, which is c. 265m to the NE and the SW-NE River Dee, which joins it from the S c. 400m to the E. The
D-shaped enclosure (LH015-047001-) is within an system of irregular fields (max. dims c. 70m x c. 70m) defined by single fosse or drain features but the enclosure is not directly connected with them. The fields cover an area of c. 20 acres (c. 8ha) and might be no more than an attempt to drain the land. It was first identified by Ivor Kenny.
See the attached enhanced aerial view from OSAP (1995)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 19 December, 2014
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.