Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Ballinlaban, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinlaban
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.39828, -7.53499
- SMR number
- WM032-093002-
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
Described in 1977, as a large complex of shallow fosses and low banks in a field to the SW, W and N of a horseshoe-shaped earthwork (WM032-093001-). Some of the fosses run for a long distance in a N-S direction and others run into them aligned E-W forming small fields of square and rectangular shapes containing cultivation ridges visible on aerial photographs. St. David’s Well (WM032-094----) located at the SSE of the field in which the field system is located. The adjoining fields to the S and SW contain traces of this field system. The dating of this field system is uncertain but the extensive scale of this system may suggest that it is post-1700 in date.
Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 28 March 2013
See attached jpeg files showing aerial photograph taken from Bing Maps of field system and cultivation ridges, www.bing.com.maps/, accessed 28 March 2013.
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.