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Field system

Cheeverstown, County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Field system, Cheeverstown, County Meath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Cheeverstown
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.46950, -6.40978
SMR number
ME045-020----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on a level landscape. An unmapped field system in pasture covering about 5 ha (c. 12 acres) is visible on vertical aerial photographs (GSIAP: O 58, 59) from the 1970s. A central area is divided into small rectangular plots (dims c. 40m x c. 10m to c. 30m x c. 25m) defined by silted drains (Wth 3-5m; D 0.2-0.5m). The E edge has E-W cultivation ridges covering c. 1 ha, but no house sites are present anywhere. The fields are also visible on OSI images 2000, 2005) and on Google Earth (24/06/2018, 01/06/2020, 16/03/2021) and on earlier series.
(Feeley 2001, 36, No. 15)

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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
Amended: 17 December 2021

References

GSIAP - Geological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1973). Geological Survey. Beggars Bush, Haddington Road, Dublin 4.

Feeley, E. 2001 A survey of archaeological remains OS sheet 45 – Co. Meath. Ríocht na Mídhe, vol. 12, 27-66.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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