Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Cullentry,gilbertstown, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cullentry,gilbertstown
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.47113, -6.89129
- SMR number
- ME042-043----
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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 fairly level landscape. The earthwork banks and ditches of a relict, grass-covered field system covering about 9 ha (c. 22 acres) are most clearly visible on Google Earth (08/11/2019; 17/01/2020). The fields are generally rectangular but vary in size from small (dims c. 25m x c. 15m) to large (dims c. 60m x c. 40m), but the defining features are fainter in Gilbertstown where cultivation ridges might be present. A rectangular enclosure (dims c. 50m ENE-WSW; c. 35m NNW-SSE) at the centre, in Cullentry, has wide fosses (Wth c. 6m) at N and S, and a rectangular structure, perhaps a house, at the NE angle. It is also visible on other aerial imagery, and it was first reported by Jean Charles Caillére.
See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth (17/01/2020)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 11 October 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.