Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - tree-ring
Loughan, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Loughan
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Partially indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Coordinates
- 53.51880, -7.53993
- SMR number
- WM017-104----
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 on S-facing slope of a steep hill, in demesne woodland with good views in all directions, particularly of Mount Dalton Lough to S. Depicted as an oblong-shaped feature (approx. dims. 16m N-S; 11m E-W) truncated by a trackway at S, on the 1837 OS 6-inch map. Depicted as a roughly oval-shaped area (approx. dims. 38m NE-SW; 21m NW-SE) with straightened sides on the revised 1913 OS 25-inch map. Described in 1983 as having no surface remains visible and occupied by a modern plantation. Monument is obscured by a tree-planted area on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Not depicted as an antiquity on any edition OS 6-inch map and located on the demesne lands of Mount Dalton House located 340m to E. Could be the remains of a pond or landscape feature of post-1700 date associated with the landscaping of the demesne lands of Mount Dalton House now Loughazon Hall.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 09 January 2019
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.