Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Carstown (ferrard By; Ballymakenny Par.), County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carstown (ferrard By; Ballymakenny Par.)
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.76174, -6.32441
- SMR number
- LH021-085002-
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 a gentle E-facing slope. The cropmarks of single field drains covering about 5 hectares (c. 13 acres) are visible on Apple Maps, which utilises a survey by Blue Sky during 2018. The fields are irregularly rectangular (dims c. 40m x c. 10-30m) in shape and focus on a subrectangular enclosure (LH021-085001-). The features were reported separately by Matthew Mullen-Reynolds and Anthony Murphy at about the same time. A second rectangular enclosure (LH021-085003-) came to light in a Digital Globe image (2011-13).
See the attached enhanced view from Apple Maps
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 21 January 2020
Amended: 21 January 2022
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Armorial plaqueunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.