Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Gillardstown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gillardstown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.64453, -7.26981
- SMR number
- WM007-133----
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 reclaimed grassland, with ringfort (WM007-059---) 100m to W. Outline of large circular-shaped enclosure (approx. dims. 51m N-S x 48m E-W) clearly visible on Digital Globe aerial photographs. A field boundary running N-S intersects perimeter of site at W.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Emmet Byrnes
Date of upload: 04 January 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 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.