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
- Outlined
- Latest-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Coordinates
- 53.52049, -7.53872
- SMR number
- WM017-105----
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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 a knoll on the top of a steep hill on demesne lands of Mount Dalton House now Loughazon Hall located 235m to SSE, with good views in all directions. Depicted as a circular shaped tree-plantation centred on a spot height (168m/551ft OD) on the 1837 OS 6-inch map. Annotated on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as ‘Loughan Spire’.
Described in 1983 as a very large circular-shaped tree-ring (approx. diam. 78m) enclosed by a well-preserved stone wall (approx. H 1m). A man-made mound or tumulus (WM017-105001-) occupies the centre of the enclosure and may be a reformed antiquity or an estate feature associated with Loughazon Hall [Mount Dalton House], which lies c. 260m to SE. Monument is visible as a circular-shaped tree-planted area on Digital Globe aerial photography.
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
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.