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Field system

Ardnacrany North, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Field system, Ardnacrany North, County Westmeath, 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
Ardnacrany North
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.52272, -7.74759
SMR number
WM016-018----

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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)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · 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 in an area of knolls and ridges in partially reclaimed grassland. Ringfort (WM016-031----) 165m to S, Carmelite friary (WM016-019----) 460m to WNW. No surface remains visible of possible field system first noted in 1971 (ASI field report 26/10/1971). Earthworks described in 1971 as consisting of at least two adjacent enclosures within a complex of banks surrounding them. It is possible that some of these earthworks may have been related to drainage rather than representing the remains of a pre-1700 field system.

Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 11 September 2018

Nearby in the register

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

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