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Field system

Baile Mhac Airt Íochtarach, County Waterford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Field system, Baile Mhac Airt Íochtarach, County Waterford, 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
Baile Mhac Airt Íochtarach
County
Waterford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not idicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
51.98457, -7.63840
SMR number
WA039-035001-

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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)
  • 1865 · Ireland, (South) Sheet. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (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

Located on a gentle SE-facing slope. The grass-covered remains of a house (WA039-035002-) (ext. dims. 21m NE-SE; 9m NW-SE) with an entrance (Wth 1.2m) at the N end of the SE side, and a yard (dims. 22m x 21m) off-set to the E and N are in a field called Pairc an Reachtaire - the Steward's field, on the E side of a N-S lane. It is associated with a field system covering c. 10 ha in a fleld called An Gort Mór - the big field, on the W side of the lane that also contains the fulacht fia (WA039-034----). The fields are rectangular (dims. c. 100m x 50m) defined by low banks or scarps traversed by an old roadway or wide silted drain (Wth 2.8m; L c. 200m). A raised platform (dims. 50m E-W; 39m N-S) to the N is located at the junction of two old stream-beds.

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload/revision: 17 October 2011

Nearby in the register

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

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