Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Clonkeen (Kilkenny West By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonkeen (Kilkenny West By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.53962, -7.82319
- SMR number
- WM016-002----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Vague traces of a square-shaped earthwork pointed out as a probable antiquity to the ASI by Mr. Cecil English in 1978. A sub-circular shaped earthwork is depicted at this location on the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map but not depicted on subsequent editions of the OS maps.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 10 September 2018
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.