Field system in Ballincarroona (smallcounty By.) — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Five hundred metres of forgotten geometry stretch south of Kilfrush House, their angular shadows visible only when sunlight rakes across rough pasture. The lines may mark post-1700 drainage for estate works rather than ancient fields, yet they impose human order on wild ground. Whatever their origin, the pattern still divides the landscape into rooms no longer occupied, waiting for rain or fire to erase them.

In rough partially reclaimed pasture, immediately S of townland boundary with Kilfrush and 520m S of Kilfrush House. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Identified as a possible field system by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 101; AP 5/2199). Visible as a pattern of linear cropmarks, some perpendicular to each, covering a large area (dims. c. 550m N-S x 300m E-W) on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages. Linear cropmarks may represent the remains of post-1700 drainage channels associated with land reclamation works at Kilfrush House rather than the remains of a medieval field system. See attached Bruff survey image showing cropmark labelled Bruff 101 and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 3 July 2021

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