What is recorded here

West of Ballynagally, cultivation ridges and faint cropmarks still cross wet pasture where no boundary stone or modern fence admits them. They may be old field lines, drained ditches, or forgotten experiments in making muddy ground yield. However long they survived, they stopped belonging to any visible human hand.

In low-lying, wet pasture 130m N of a watercourse that marks the townland boundary with Scart. Possible Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 40.4; AP 4/3666) as a possible field system. Faint linear cropmarks running N-S visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimages. Cultivation ridges running E-W visible on Google Earth orthoimage 18/11/2018 are not contained within the linear N-S cropmarks. The linear cropmarks running N-S possibly represents the remains of drainage ditches rather than the remains of a pre-1700 field system. The dating of the cultivation ridges remains uncertain. See attached photocopy of Bruff aerial image labelled Bruff 4.04 and Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 8 April 2021

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