Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape feature
Killua, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killua
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.65733, -7.00118
- SMR number
- WM009-009----
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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 the NW face of a natural rise in the Deerpark of Killua Castle located 400m to NNE. A folly depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as 'Monument' in Gothic script is located 120m to NNE. A circular earthen mound (diam. 9.25m; H 4.5m) defined by a scarp and narrow external fosse (Wth 2.5m; D 0.5m). Could be the remains of a designed landscape feature on the demesne lands of Killua Castle. The cropmark of five similar designed landscape earthworks 70m to S can be seen running in a line from W-E on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011.
See attached section of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 27 April 2017
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.