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Designed landscape - tree-ring

Ballybeg, County Longford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Designed landscape - tree-ring, Ballybeg, 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
Ballybeg
County
Longford
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
53.63096, -7.69805
SMR number
LF023-014001-

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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 the E-facing slope of a low ridge in pasture. Depicted on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a tree-covered irregular enclosure formed at the junction of a number of field boundaries. It is represented on the OS 25-inch plan (surveyed 1911) as a circular tree-covered enclosure. It consists of a low hillock (40m NNE-SSW; 38m WNW-ESE) enclosed from E-S-N by a bank of earth and stone and elsewhere defined by a scarp, both of which have been extensively modified and incorporated into the field boundary. From S-W-N there is a shallow fosse at the outer foot of the bank. No entrance is recognisable. At the inner face of the bank at W are the remains of a subrectangular enclosure (LF023-014002-) In addition, a report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded a house site (LF023-014003-) at the inner face of the bank at N. In all probability this is a designed landscape feature associated with Richmount Hill house, c. 320m to SE. Another landscape feature (LF021-015----) lies 220m to SSW.
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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