Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Loughagar More, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Loughagar More
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Partially outlined
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.56608, -7.25322
- SMR number
- WM012-201----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Situated on W facing slope of a low ridge in undulating grassland, overlooking poorly drained and to NW and NE. Semi-circular shaped earthwork with building on S side depicted on 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map but not on subsequent editions. No surface remains visible. Earthwork not visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken 2011. Earthwork not depicted as an antiquity on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. Of doubtful antiquity.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 12 March 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Burial moundunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.