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Field system

Ballyboher,Paradise Little, County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Field system, Ballyboher, Paradise Little, County Wexford, 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
Ballyboher,Paradise Little
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.21849, -6.45131
SMR number
WX047-142003-

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

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)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on a fairly level low-lying landscape. In July 2018 a drone-mounted camera operated by Páid Bates (Skypix) recorded an image of the cropmarks of a field system covering about 13 ha (c. 32 acres). The fields are fairly rectangular (dims c. 30-50m x c. 100m) but not completely regular and are defined by single fosse features that appear to be unrelated to the field system depicted only on the 1902 edition of the OS 6-inch map. The N edge of rectangular enclosure (WX047-142001-) is incorporated in one of the E-W field drains but other enclosures within the fields appear to be unconnected with them.

See the attached aerial view taken from N courtesy of Skypix Aerial Works

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 2 January 2019

Nearby in the register

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

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