Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - tree-ring
Cartroncroy, County Westmeath, Ireland
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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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
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.