Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Milltown (Deece Upper By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Milltown (Deece Upper By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.44868, -6.63231
- SMR number
- ME049-041----
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid 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)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (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 on the S side of a small canalised E-W stream. A small area (dims c. 60m N-S; c. 30m E-W) has three rows of sunken grass-covered ponds or ditches (dims of top c. 10-15m x c. 3-4m; D 0.1-0.2m), the most westerly obscured by growth from a N-S field bank. There are two to three of these sunken areas in each row that were probably used for the retting of flax.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 23 May 2023
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Church1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.