Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - tree-ring
Barratogher, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Barratogher
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Coordinates
- 53.65938, -7.48935
- SMR number
- WM006-021----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on low rise in low lying marshy pasture-land with good views in all directions, 50m S of a small stream. Barratogher House located 400m to W. Not depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map, but depicted on the 1875 ed. as a circular grove of trees. A sub-circular area (diam. 22m N-S; 24m E-W) enclosed by a poorly preserved earthen bank, overgrown with trees and bushes, best preserved from E-S-W, and narrow shallow fosse. A gap at NW (Wth 3.5m) may represent an entrance. The interior rises towards the centre, is partly overgrown with scrub and conifers and contains dumps of field clearance stones. The presence of tree stumps suggest that this is the remains of a tree ring, or perhaps a ringfort re-used as a tree ring. Not depicted as an antiquity on any ed. OS map.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 30 January 2017
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Water mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.