Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Ballymacartan, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymacartan
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.52028, -7.63720
- SMR number
- WM017-088----
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 in pasture, to the immediate E of a infilled sand quarry. Not visible on Digital Globe aerial photography. Monument depicted as an earthwork on Larkin's Map of 1808 (NLI, MS 46,580). Not depicted on the 1837 OS 6-inch map or the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map. Described in 1980 as a wide, low rise which has a wide shallow depression at the SW end, probably the result of quarrying. There are no surface remains visible of an antiquity. Old sand pit depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map may be the earthwork depicted on Larkin's map of Westmeath.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 20 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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Water mill - vertical-wheeledunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.