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Earthwork

Monkstown, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Earthwork, Monkstown, 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
Monkstown
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.58474, -7.27375
SMR number
WM012-154----

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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 in grassland with good views in all directions. No surface remains visible of levelled monument. The slightest suggestion of a cropmark of the levelled monument is visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. Small oval-shaped earthwork depicted on 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map but not indicated on revised 1911 edition of the OS 6-inch map suggesting that the monument was levelled between these dates.

Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 8 March 2018

Nearby in the register

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

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