Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Knockbody, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockbody
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Partially hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.61300, -7.31552
- SMR number
- WM012-008----
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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
In woodland with ringfort (WM012-009----) 115m to E. Depicted on the 1st. ed. OSi 6-inch map a circular-shaped area (diam. c. 36m) defined by a scarp transected at N by a field boundary running on a NE-SW axis. Depicted as a semi-circular shaped rise of ground in the N corner of a woodland plantation on the OSi 25-inch map. Earthwork not visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 due to woodland coverage.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 16 August 2023
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.