Field system in Mooresides, County Meath

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What is recorded here

Located in the shallow valley of the SW-NE Delvin River, with a WSW-ENE section of the stream c. 100m to the S. It was first identified by Ivor Kenny and is visible on the Bing aerial images. An area of c. 2 ha (5 acres) contains a number of grass-covered relict field banks and ditches forming a number of small rectangular enclosures (dims c. 30m x c. 20m) and one subcircular enclosure (diam. c. 50m).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record ME033-060

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