Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Crannog
Hawkswood, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Hawkswood
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.22368, -7.50399
- SMR number
- OF025-035----
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 wet poorly drained bogland. Outline of circular shaped tree-planted area (approx. diam. 60m) at W end of coniferous tree plantation visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken 20/03/2019. Circular grove of trees standing on bogland to the W of Derrynaslingue wood depicted on revised ed. OS 6-inch map.
See attached image of Google Earth photograph taken 18/01/2019
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Ed O'Donovan
Date of upload: 09 April 2019
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosure1 mi
- Road - road/trackway1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.