Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - tree-ring
Gortanear, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortanear
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.70255, -7.50617
- SMR number
- WM002-012----
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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 low ridge running NW-SE, in undulating reclaimed pasture-land. Levelled enclosure or possible tree-ring consisting of a circular area defined by a wide shallow fosse (Wth c. 6m) no trace of enclosing bank, interior not raised. Depicted as a circular grove of trees or as a tree-ring on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. Enclosure levelled in 1970 as part of land reclamation works.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 21 November 2016
Nearby in the register
- Castle - motteunder 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.