Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - tree-ring
Woodtown West, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Woodtown West
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.58618, -6.98937
- SMR number
- ME029-025----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a fairly level landscape and c. 500m N of Woodtown House. This feature is depicted as a small circular copse (diam. c.30m) only on the 1836 edition of the OS map but it was recorded in 1955 (SMR file) as a circular platform (diam. 30m) with some tree-stumps defined by a fosse (Wth of top 2.5m; int. D. c. 0.9m; ext. D c. 0.2m). It was probably a tree-ring but its visible profile had been removed by 2005 (OSAP).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 28 February 2019
References
OSAP - Ordnance Survey Aerial Photographs. Photographic collection. Ordnance Survey of Ireland. Dublin.
SMR file - Sites and monuments record files in the National Monuments Service, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.
Nearby in the register
- Concentric enclosureunder 1 mi
- Earthwork1 mi
- Castle - tower house1 mi
- Ringfort - rath1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.