Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure - large enclosure
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
- 53.65976, -7.00548
- SMR number
- WM009-057----
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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 in demesne lands on the post-1700 Deerpark of Killua Castle located 550m to E. Ringfort (WM009-010----) 90m to N, two landscape features (WM009-009-/011----) located 160m to NNE. Cropmark of large roughly circular-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 90m) visible on OSI aerial photographs. Potential archaeological monument although due to its large size could be a geological rather than archaeological feature.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Emmet Byrnes, Senior Archaeologist, Forest Service Inspectorate, Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Date of upload: 3 May 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Architectural featureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.