Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Gorteen (phillipstown Lower By.), County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gorteen (phillipstown Lower By.)
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.31654, -7.26432
- SMR number
- OF010-037----
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
Series of low banks, ditches and scarped raised areas. Large almost centrally placed rectangular shaped raised area (8m E-W, 16 N-S). Entire central area of modern field filled with drainage-like earthworks possibly of 17th century date. Aerial photo (GSI 547/546) clearly shows central raised area.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 23 December 2011
References
GSIAP - Geological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1973). Geological Survey. Beggars Bush, Haddington Road, Dublin 4.
Nearby in the register
- Burnt spreadunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.