Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - tree-ring
Barbavilla Demesne, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Barbavilla Demesne
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured, Clondavreen
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.63884, -7.21471
- SMR number
- WM008-056----
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 low rise in gently undulating grass-land. Ringfort ( WM008-057----) 280m to E. Depicted as a small irregular shaped earthwork on the 1837 ed. OS Fair Plan map. Depicted on the 1837 ed OS 6-inch map but not indicated on subsequent editions of the OS 6-inch maps. Annotated 'Clump' and depicted as tree-ring on an estate map of Barbavilla Demsene (NLI, MS 21 F. 48 (009) ). This site has been levelled. No surface remains visible.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 20 April 2017
References
NLI, MS 21 F. 48 (009) - National Library of Ireland, A map of Barbavilla demense in the barony of Fore and County of Westmeath. Names of tenants and acreage of holdings shown. Longfield Map Collection, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fish-pondunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.