Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Balsaw, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Balsaw
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.71681, -6.72231
- SMR number
- ME018-015----
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 level landscape. Aerial photographs from c. 1950 (ACAP: V307/1590) and 1973 (GSIAP: N 269) show the cropmarks of a rectangular field system associated with enclosure sites (ME018-016----). The fields (dims c. 70m x c. 50m) are aligned N-S generally and not with the current field system. They cover and area of about 35acres (c. 14 ha).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Compiled by Michael Moore
Date of upload: 10 July 2007
Revised: 24 March 2023
ACAP – Air Corps Aerial Photographs. Baldonnel, Co. Dublin
GSIAP – Geological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1973). Geological Survey, Beggars Bush, Haddington Rd., Dublin 4.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Rock artunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.