Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Ballinvally, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinvally
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.75242, -7.12348
- SMR number
- ME009-108----
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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)
- 1790 · Composite: 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
Located on a fairly level landscape at the N foothills of Slieve na Calliagh ridge. Aerial photographs from 1991 (GB91.DD.37; GB91.DE.05) show an area of about 24 acres (c. 10 ha) that contains relict field banks or walls forming irregularly rectangular fields (dims c. 60m x c. 50m). One field neatly encloses the enclosure (ME009-107----). The fields are overlaid by NW-SE furrows but elements of the field walls are cut by the possible cursus (ME009-087----), suggesting that it might be a late feature like a roadway.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 2 November 2018
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cursusunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.