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Earthwork

Curry, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Earthwork, Curry, 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
Curry
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.72121, -7.33230
SMR number
WM003-031----

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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)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated in grassland on rise of ground. Outline of earthwork visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. Circular-shaped earthwork depicted on 1st. ed. OSi 6-inch map where it is depicted as a circular-shaped earthwork transected at NE by a field boundary running NW-SE. Depicted on the Cassini ed. OSi 6-inch map as a semi-circular shaped area (diam. c. 30m) defined by a ditch transected at E by a field boundary running NW-SE. Earthwork shown on the OSi 25-inch map as a D-shaped slightly raised area defined by a scarp, ditch and outer bank transected at E by a field boundary running NW-SE

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 14 August 2023

Nearby in the register

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

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