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Moated site

Milltown (Fore By.), County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Moated site, Milltown, 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
Milltown (Fore By.)
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.64234, -7.29298
SMR number
WM007-055----

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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 the NW face of a ridge that runs NW-SE in an area of pasture-land. Ringfort (WM007-056----) 420m to SE, earthwork (WM007-051----) 635m to NW. Annotated on the 1837 OS Fair Plan as a fort and gravel pit. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a sub-rectangular earthwork with rounded corners at NW and SW with a gravel pit encroaching on the S quadrant of the earthwork. This site has been levelled. No visible trace of a monument here now. Possible faint crop mark of the quarry visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011.

Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 14 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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