Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - tree-ring
The Walk, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- The Walk
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.10760, -7.71062
- SMR number
- OF036-029----
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
A large enclosure defined a bank that has been planted with beech trees along its perimeterand a well preserved V-shaped profile. This appears to a be a tree-ring that has been created on the demesne of Kinnitty Castle.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Cross - High cross (present location)under 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Architectural featureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.