Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Galmoylestown Lower, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Galmoylestown Lower
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.60061, -7.34417
- SMR number
- WM012-045----
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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
Depicted as a polygonal shaped platform on 1911 ed. OS 25-inch map. Site has been levelled and is barely visible as a slight cropmark on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 9 February 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.