Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Ballynacor, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynacor
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.58556, -7.10322
- SMR number
- WM013-066----
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 a low rise in undulating grassland. An earthwork is depicted at this location on Larkin’s 1808 map of Co. Westmeath (NLI, MS 46,580 ). The land was improved using machinery in the late 1970s. There are no surface remains visible of any monument at this location. No surface remains visible of any monument on Digital Globe aerial photograph.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 13 July 2018
References
NLI, MS 46,580 - National Library of Ireland, A map of the county of Westmeath by William Larkin. Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.