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Designed landscape - tree-ring

Cartroncroy, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Designed landscape - tree-ring, Cartroncroy, 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
Cartroncroy
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Outlined
Coordinates
53.51781, -7.84501
SMR number
WM015-029----

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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

Cropmark of levelled tree-ring in grassland bisected by a levelled field boundary visible on 2013-2018 MapGenie satellite imagery.  Circular cropmark with an internal diameter of 20m. Recorded on the 25-inch OS map. Located some 66m NE of a ringfort (WM015-017----). May also be a tree ring associated with Littletown House (in ruins) or Lodge (demolished)? Northern third of the feature is bisected by the the line of a field boundary (no longer extant – removed sometime before the 25-inch OS map) running ENE/WSW.  Possibly an earlier earthwork reused as a tree-ring in the post-1700 period.

 

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Johnny Ryan, archaeologist, Forestry Service, DAFM

 

Date of Compilation: 10 November 2025

Nearby in the register

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

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