Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballynameagh, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynameagh
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.72255, -7.34640
- SMR number
- WM003-029----
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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)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated atop low natural rise on poorly drained grassland. No surface remains visible of enclosure depicted on 1912 ed. OS 6-inch map but not indicated on 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. On the latter map a house site is indicated roughly in the area where the earthwork is depicted. Outline of D-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 27m NE-SW; 29m NW-SE) visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 3 January 2017
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.