Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Glenidan, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glenidan
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Partially indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.67189, -7.15766
- SMR number
- WM008-015----
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 a small natural ridge bisected by a field fence running NE-SW. Possible mound-barrow (WM008-014----) 140m to SW. Depicted as an earthwork on Larkin’s 1808 map of county Westmeath (NLI, MS 46,580), and as a quarry on the 1911 ed. OS 6-inch map. No visible remains of an antiquity at this location. The earthwork may have been related to post-1700 quarrying of the exposed bedrock.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 18 April 2017
References
NLI, MS 46,580 - National Library of Ireland, A map of the county of Westmeath by William Larkin. Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.