Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Structure
Knightswood, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knightswood
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.59819, -7.35994
- SMR number
- WM012-032----
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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
No surface remains visible of levelled cairn on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. Levelled monument, possibly a building was situated on reclaimed grassland 200m SW of River Gaine and 100m S of levelled mound (WM012-031-----). Monument described in 1972 as situated on low lying undulating field in grass-land. A large irregular shaped grass-covered mound of small stones, some of which have traces of mortar adhering to them which may suggest that the mound represented the site of a levelled building.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 7 February 2018
Nearby in the register
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.