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Earthwork

Kiltoom, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Earthwork, Kiltoom, 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
Kiltoom
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.65695, -7.35378
SMR number
WM007-020----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · 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 on a natural terrace in an area of pasture-land on the W face of a high hill overlooking Lough Derravaragh 110m to the W. Its original location would have been on the edge of the lake shoreline prior to drainage works. Levelled earthwork (WM007-019----) 120m to NW, crannóg (WM007-022----) 100m to S, levelled earthwork (WM007-027----) 160m to SE. No surface remains visible of levelled monument. Depicted as an oval-shaped earthwork (approx. diam. 38m N-S; 26m E-W) the S end of which stands adjacent to the shoreline of Lough Derravarragh on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. Levelled monument not visible on 2005 OSI aerial photograph but is visible as a very faint crop mark on the Digital Globe Aerial Photograph taken November 2011.

Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 11 April 2017

Nearby in the register

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

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