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Ceremonial enclosure

Knightswood, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ceremonial enclosure, Knightswood, County Westmeath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Knightswood
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.59636, -7.37107
SMR number
WM012-027----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

Situated on the SE face of a high ridge in hilly grass-land surrounded by hills. Ringfort (WM012-026---) 250m to NW. This site was almost completely levelled in the 1960s. An unusually large, slightly raised circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 61m WNW-ESE; 62m NNE-SSW) enclosed by a shallow internal fosse and poorly preserved earthen bank with possible entrance gap at ENE. The interior slopes slightly from NW-SE. A field fence running NE-SW intersects the monument at NW. This site is clearly visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011.

See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.

Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 13 December 2017

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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