Alan Counihan A Field Name Research ... - Townlands Project

Numbered Field Map or Aerial Photograph.
These will be invaluable in helping you negotiate your way
around the farm. In the Townlands Project I carried both the farm
map with the numbered fields along with an aerial photograph
in strong plastic sleeves when carrying out a field walk. More
than once they proved invaluable orientation guides. Due to the
amount of hedgerow removal in recent years confusion as to the
location of a field that now only exists in name can easily occur.
Digital Camera.
This is an important tool for the documentation of any unusual
features in the field such as lime kilns, raths, fairy thorns, mass
path remnants etc. As soon as you return from your field walk,
download the images to your computer and label them according
to the townland and field in which they were taken.
Digital Audio Recording Device
This is a useful tool to have in the field in the event that you wish
to record any details about unusual visual or archaeological
features. It is more practical that a notebook and can be used in
almost any weather.
Once the field walk is complete you should have all the
necessary survey information for this farm and are ready to file
it in the survey project’s final archive format
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