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Field system in Cullentry,gilbertstown

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Overview

Field system in Cullentry,gilbertstown is recorded as Field system at Cullentry,gilbertstown. It preserves evidence of a surviving pattern of fields, banks or boundaries made by repeated farming. The source record also describes the surviving evidence; its details are kept below.

Who lived here and when

The record identifies Field system in Cullentry,gilbertstown as Field system. It does not safely name every person, family or worker who used it, or fix all phases to exact years.

Homes and daily life

The recorded type points to a surviving pattern of fields, banks or boundaries made by repeated farming. That explains the likely everyday purpose without claiming people, tools or customs that the exact record does not prove.

What was found

The saved source says: Located on a fairly level landscape. The earthwork banks and ditches of a relict, grass-covered field system covering about 9 ha (c. 22 acres) are most clearly visible on Google Earth (08/11/2019; 17/01/2020). The fields are generally rectangular but vary in size from small (dims c. 25m x c. 15m) to large (dims c. 60m x c. 40m), but the defining features are fainter in Gilbertstown where cultivation ridges might be present. A rectangular enclosure (dims c. 50m ENE-WSW; c. 35m NNW-SSE) at the centre, in Cullentry, has wide fosses (Wth c. 6m) at N and S, and a rectangular structure, perhaps a house, at the NE angle. It is also visible on other aerial imagery, and it was first reported by Jean Charles Caillére. See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth (17/01/2020) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 11 October 2021

Why it ended

The saved record does not establish one certain ending. A change in farming, water level, trade, fuel, ownership, route or settlement pattern may have ended the use, but no single cause is claimed without evidence.

Why it mattered

Field system in Cullentry,gilbertstown fixes a real piece of work or daily life to an exact place. Even where names are lost, its remains show how people obtained food and materials, organised land, made homes or adapted to the local ground.

History checked 15 August 2026 against the named sources below.

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