Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - tree-ring
Ballynascarry, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynascarry
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Coordinates
- 53.77925, -7.30670
- SMR number
- WM001-013----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Depicted as a roughly circular shaped tree-ring (approx. diam. 90m N-S; 93m E-W) and not as an antiquity on all editions of the OS 6-inch maps. Ringfort (WM001-012---) also depicted on OS 6-inch maps as a tree-ring located 470m to S. Situated on a slight rise of ground on the W face of a small ridge running NW-SE in pasture land. Ballynascarry House located 910m to SE. No surface remains visible of tree-ring. Cropmark of levelled earthwork visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 16 November 2016
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.