Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Barbavilla Demesne, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Barbavilla Demesne
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.64055, -7.21490
- SMR number
- WM008-115----
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
A circular-shaped earthwork is depicted on an estate map of Barbavilla Demesne where it is shown standing inside a woodland plantation (NLI, MS 21 F. 48 (009) ). Local area annotated 'Clondavreen' on the OS 6-inch map. Levelled monument, no surface remains visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 19 July 2019
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
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 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.