Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Carpenterstown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carpenterstown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.69754, -7.25084
- SMR number
- WM003-080----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 well drained grassland, overlooked by higher ridge to W. Lough Glore 410m to SSW. Ringfort (WM003-080---) 110m to W. A small rectangular shaped area (approx. dims 13m NW-SE; 26m NE-SW) enclosed by a very low earthen bank, with possible entrance gap at SW. Faint outlined of levelled earthwork visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011.
See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 23 May 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.