Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Military camp
Shinglis, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shinglis
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Site of Camp
- Latest-edition OS map
- Camp (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.50997, -7.67414
- SMR number
- WM017-086----
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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 on S facing slope of a rise (350ft OD), in undulating pasture, c. 400m S of Shinglis House. A ringfort (WM017-085----) lies c. 33m to NNE, an enclosure (WM017-084----) c. 95m to SW and Shinglis Castle (WM017-083----) c. 325m to NW. Annotated ‘Site of Irish Camp’ on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map. In 1648 a military camp was established here by Ormond's Royalist army in an attempt to capture the Catholic army under the command of General Owen Roe O'Neill (Woods 1907, 17).
Site of 17th century military camp described in 1978 as consisting of the traces of two earthen banks forming a small L-shaped enclosure with one bank extending to the N and the other to the W. No visible remains of this L-shaped enclosure are visible today on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 19 December 2018
References
Woods, J. (ed.) 1907 Annals of Westmeath ancient and modern. Dublin. Sealy, Bryers & Walker.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.