Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Windtown North, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Windtown North
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.66991, -7.53952
- SMR number
- WM005-001----
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 pasture-land with old laneway immediately to E and ringfort (WM006-006----)150m to E. Annotated as ‘fort’ on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map and depicted as a small hachured circular earthwork or mound on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map, but not marked on subsequent editions of the OS maps. Not visible at ground level, and no cropmark of earthwork visible on Digital Globe aerial photographs taken November 2011.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 13 December 2016
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.