Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Scurlockstown (deece Lower By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Scurlockstown (deece Lower By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.54902, -6.73704
- SMR number
- ME037-062----
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
Situated on a fairly level landscape c. 300m E of the site of Scurlockstown tower house (ME037-011----) and the associated structures. The remnants of a field system covering about 4 ha (c. 10 acres) are visible on Google Earth (15/02/2019), and also on OSAP (2012). The fields are large (dims up to c. 130m x c. 50m) and appear to be defined by silted drains. The field boundaries are parallel with the current field boundaries, and many of the fields are occupied by cultivation ridges. Around the centre of the area smaller plots (dims c. 35m x c. 10m) on the E side of a major S-N sunken feature may represent settlement.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 21 August 2019
References
OSAP - Ordnance Survey Aerial Photographs. Photographic collection. Ordnance Survey of Ireland. Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Stableunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.