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Field system

Boolies (Kells Upper By., Donaghpatrick ED), County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Field system, Boolies, County Meath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Boolies (Kells Upper By., Donaghpatrick ED)
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.69239, -6.73237
SMR number
ME018-025----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (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

Located in a slight hollow in a fairly level landscape with a small and meandering NE-SW stream forming its W edge. It was first recorded on an aerial photograph by L. Swan c. 1970 and the features are also visible on vertical images (GSIAP: N 267-8). Their visible profile had been removed by 1984 (SMR file), although traces of features might still be visible on Google Earth (14/11/2019). An area of about 3.3 ha (c. 8.5 acres) has grass-covered earthwork banks and ditches creating some small plots (dims c. 50m x c. 20-30m) with some platforms that might be house sites. There are also some old quarries.

See the attached image (_01) from the L. Swan collection:“Oblique aerial photograph taken by Leo Swan of Boolies, County Meath.,” accessed March 12, 2023, http://lswanaerial.locloudhosting.net/items/show/32280
(_02) from Google Earth

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

GSIAP – Geological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1973). Geological Survey, Beggars Bush, Haddington Rd., Dublin 4.
SMR file – Sites and Monuments Record files in the National Monuments Service, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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