Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Bailis, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bailis
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.64770, -6.65302
- SMR number
- ME025-095004-
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
Just W of the corn-drying kiln (ME025-095003-) and the cistern area (ME025-095002-) an L-shaped gully (L c. 50m; Wth 1.2-1.4m; D 0.1-0.4m) runs NNW-SSE (L 48m) and turns SW (L 10m) just N of the major E-W channel of the cistern area where it ends. The single fill of silty clay yielded a clay pipe stem, and although its full extent cannot be gauged it is thought to enclose a small plot to the W. Its SW section ran parallel to and just N of an earlier ditch (L 15m plus; Wth 2.3m; D 0.5m) that turned NW at its W end while its NE end emerged from but was earlier than the major E-W ditch in the cistern area. Three cuts of this ditch were identified and although sherds of medieval pottery were scarce, post-medieval material was entirely absent and this is thought to be the remnant of a medieval field system. Archaeological testing (22E0165) by S. McGlade just to the SW produced no related material (excavations.ie 2022:094). (McGlade and Ruddy 2019, 34-36)
See the attached site plan from McGlade and Ruddy (2019, P 33)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload; 13 April 2023
McGlade, S. and Ruddy, S. 2019 Excavation of Site A, Bailis, & Monitoring Alexander Reid, Navan. Licence: 16E0449. Unpublished report, Archaeology Plan
Nearby in the register
- Cisternunder 1 mi
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.