Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - tree-ring
Killua, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killua
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Coordinates
- 53.66320, -6.99219
- SMR number
- WM009-059----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Cropmark of circular-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 30m) visible on Digital Globe aerial imagery. Possible tree-ring which is depicted on the 1st. ed. OS 6-inch map.
See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 17/01/2020
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère
Date of upload: 15 April 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.