Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Mooresides, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mooresides
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.57474, -6.32917
- SMR number
- ME033-060----
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 in the shallow valley of the SW-NE Delvin River, with a WSW-ENE section of the stream c. 100m to the S. It was first identified by Ivor Kenny and is visible on the Bing aerial images. An area of c. 2 ha (5 acres) contains a number of grass-covered relict field banks and ditches forming a number of small rectangular enclosures (dims c. 30m x c. 20m) and one subcircular enclosure (diam. c. 50m).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 4 June, 2014
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.