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Field system

Ballinlaban, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Field system, Ballinlaban, 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
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-

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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

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

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

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