Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Reynella, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Reynella
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.58228, -7.17456
- SMR number
- WM013-127----
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
Oval-shaped earthwork or platform (approx. diam. 22m) depicted as an antiquity on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map and shown on subsequent editions of the OS maps as an oval-shaped platform. Ringfort (WM013-054----) lies 75m to ENE. Earthwork is visible today a roughly square-shaped earthwork on Digital Globe aerial imagery.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Edmond O'Donovan
Date of upload: 16 April 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.