OpenStreetMap
Luckily, I’m well connected with the right people (at least in this case), and people know my obsessions about benchmarks and field names. I had been surveying Cramersgrove in Co. Kilkenny and a friend said that “we” (in this case Kilkenny Archaeological Society) had a c 1815 Coghill Estate map in our archives with field names on it. Again luckily during lockdown, I have a key to the archives, because I was doing some work there at the beginning of lockdown, so I had a root around. The problem with those maps is that they are all rolled up and you don’t know what’s on them until they’re unrolled and not all of them are labelled. But I found the right one! And it does have field names on it and some match the ones I got from the farmer who lives there now. His great-grandfather must have been purchasing that land about the time that map was made. That should be well out of copyright and I should be allowed to add the historical names. If there is a tag…
The field with the pin is Bonnahilla on the 1816 map. A bit of a different spelling to Bawn na haille.
Discussion
Comment from SK53 on 31 May 2020 at 15:24
I’d actually join the boundaries of fields and add fences and hedgerows where relevant as line features. I think it’s a little artificial to assume they aren’t part of the field system, or at least in OSM we can buffer the line elements if we need to for certain purposes.
Field boundaries, as we know from the townlands project, are an equally important part of the cultural heritage. In cases where a hedgerow has existed for hundreds of years they are ecologically very valuable.
Comment from b-unicycling on 31 May 2020 at 20:47
Thanks, I will keep that in mind and try to correct my edits.