TreeAlive
‹ Sites and Monuments Record, Ireland

Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland

Hilltop enclosure

Littlewood, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Hilltop enclosure, Littlewood, County Westmeath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Littlewood
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.73714, -7.28836
SMR number
WM003-009----

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Get directions ↗

This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗

The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on the summit of a prominent hill with good views in all directions. A large oval-shaped area (diam. 52m) defined by a low earth and stone bank with shallow U-shaped fosse and low external earthen bank of post-1700 appearance which may represent later enclosing element of the monument contemporaneous with adjoining field boundaries. Field fences radiate out from the perimeter of the site at NE, S and NW. Entrance gap (Wth 1.5m) at NE. There are remains of drystone masonry facing to the S side of the gap. The interior rises unevenly towards the centre where there is the outline of a house site (WM003-009001-). The site is now covered in trees and other vegetation as clearly shown on Digital Globe aerial photographs taken November 2011.

Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 9 December 2016

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
All Hilltop enclosure in Westmeath All County Westmeath records All Ireland Heritage registers Historical markers (US)National Register of Historic Places (US)
See your own family's places on a living map