Overview
Indicated — Ballytrasna is recorded as Field system at Ballytrasna. 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 Indicated — Ballytrasna 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: Visible on aerial photographs (OS 1 3323-2), and marked on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map with house sites then in use. Situated in a hollow between rises. An area of c. 4 ha contained low earthen banks which define small rectangular fields (dims c. 50m x c. 30-40m), with house sites at the E where there is a NW-SE road. These are not visible now at ground level in pasture, apart from one fragment of an earthen bank (L 30m E-W; Wth 3-4m; H 0.3-0.4m). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
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
Indicated — Ballytrasna 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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