Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Graigs, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Graigs
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.69084, -6.65247
- SMR number
- ME018-029----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located on a gently undulating landscape. The cropmarks of ditches forming small rectangular enclosures (dims c. 60m x c. 30m) are visible on oblique aerial photographs (CUCAP: ATC030-032) from July 1967 when the field was growing cereals, but the fields are not apparent in more recent series when under pasture. The relict fields cover an area of about 5 hectares (c. 13 acres). Archaeological testing (08E1001) by P. D. Sweetman at the E edge of the area produced no related material (excavations 2008:962), and further archaeological testing (09E0043) by R. Meenan c. 80m to the E had a similar result (excavations 2009:636). More recently, archaeological testing (19E0393) by P. D. Sweetman on the site of a house at the roadside produced no related material (excavations.ie 2019:771).
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
CUCAP – Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photographs. Unit for Landscape Modelling. Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. See:https://www.cambridgeairphots.com
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.