Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Skeagh More, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Skeagh More
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.53811, -7.56544
- SMR number
- WM017-050----
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 at base of N-facing slope of a high hill. No monument visible on Digital Globe aerial photography or on OS historic mapping. The monument is only indicated on Larkin's 1808 map of Co. Westmeath (NLI, MS 46,580). A roadway no longer visible running E-W is depicted at this location on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. The cropmark of the levelled road is visible in field to E. Levelled monument described in 1984 as a semi-circular-shaped earthwork (15m N-S) defined by a low bank (Wth 2-3m) which encloses a level area. A modern field fence running NE-SW skirts the E-side of the extant remains and may bisect the earthwork. There is no obvious evidence of a fosse.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 07 December 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
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Bullringunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.