Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - tree-ring
Lowberry, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lowberry
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.68495, -8.67850
- SMR number
- RO032-055----
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 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Marked as a circular wood on the 1837 and 1928 (diam. c. 50m) eds of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a shelf of a S-facing slope. Oval hillock (dims 56.6m N-S; 42m E-W; H 1.8-2.3m generally to 4.2m at S) defined by a drystone wall at its base. The trees have been cut. This is a natural feature planted as a tree-ring in full view of Lowberry House (RO032-054----) c. 230m to the NNW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- House - 17th/18th centuryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.