Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Screggan, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Screggan
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.25045, -7.55544
- SMR number
- OF016-083----
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
In grassland on the former demesne lands of Screggan Manor located 170m to WNW, 50m S of the driveway to the house now abandoned. Outline of circular shaped earthwork (diam. c. 47m) visible on Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) Lidar Survey captured between May 2010 and May 2011 (https://dcenr.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=b7c4b0e763964070ad69bf8c1572c9f5). The location of this earthwork to the S of the driveway on the designed landscape of Screggan Manor may indicate that this earthwork represents the remains of a designed landscape feature, such as a tree-ring rather than that of a ringfort. The earthwork is located in an area of woodland plantation as shown on the 1838 ed. OSi 6-inch map.
See attached Lidar Survey plot showing circular-shaped earthwork.
Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien based on details provided by Gavin Walsh
Date of upload: 9 November 2021
Nearby in the register
- Linear earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Linear earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.