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Designed landscape - tree-ring

Moatfarrell, County Longford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Designed landscape - tree-ring, Moatfarrell, County Longford, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Moatfarrell
County
Longford
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.72604, -7.65195
SMR number
LF014-054----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On a low hillock, at the base of a W-facing slope in pasture. Depicted as a large oval-shaped copse of trees delimited by a fence on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. It consists of a large oval-shaped area (c. 95m WNW-ESE; c. 64m NNE-SSW) enclosed by two earthen banks with an intermediate fosse. The inner bank extends only from N-E-ESE (Wth 3.2m; H 0.1-0.4m) and there is no evidence that it continued for the remainder of the circuit. The wide shallow fosse (Wth 3-4.9m; D 0.1-0.6m) and narrow, low outer bank (Wth 0.6-0.8m; H 0.1-0.4m) extend for the entire circuit. The present entrance is at E but this is not original. The ground level of the interior is uneven with many hollows and rises. This is probably a landscape feature associated with 'Moatfarrell House' c. 250m ENE.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan

Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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