Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Anneville Or Clonard Old, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Anneville Or Clonard Old
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.44991, -7.00871
- SMR number
- ME047-008----
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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)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Located on both banks of the canalised NW-SE Clonard stream. Aerial photographs (CUCAP: ALK 92, AOY 46; AYR 36, 37) from the 1970s show a field system covering about 50 acres (c. 20 ha), now largely reclaimed. The fields are fairly regular (dims c. 50m x c. 30m) and are defined by silted ditches in the main. Excavation (E000154) by P. D. Sweetman in 1976 (1978, 12-15) revealed that most of the ditches were medieval and that the present canalised stream cuts some of them. Included in the complex are the ring-work (ME047-005----), enclosure (ME047-006----), and the motte and bailey (ME047-004----). Two burial grounds (ME047015----; ME047-017----) are within the fields. The site of St Finian’s monastery (ME047-007----) is at the N edge of the area and the convent of St Mary (ME047-021----) as well as the Augustinian abbey of St Peter (ME0245-022----) could be within it.
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 revision: 13 August 2019
References
Sweetman, P.D. 1978 Excavations of medieval 'field boundaries' at Clonard, Co. Meath. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 108, 10-22.
CUCAP - Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photographs. Unit for Landscape Modelling, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. See:https://www.cambridgeairphotos.com
Nearby in the register
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Stone troughunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.