Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape feature
Baronstown Demesne, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Baronstown Demesne
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Temple
- Latest-edition OS map
- Temple (site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.60967, -7.50220
- SMR number
- WM011-156----
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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
Depicted on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map as 'Temple' which was a landscape feature or folly associated with Baronstown House located 150m to the W. The site of this 'Temple' was recorded in 1981 and described as 'Nothing now remains of this site, nor is there any indication of its former existence. The site was situated in the parkland of Baronstown House' (SMR file 1981).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 4 October 2010
Nearby in the register
- Icehouseunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.