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Enclosure - large enclosure

Cartron (Moygoish By.), County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure - large enclosure, Cartron, County Westmeath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Cartron (Moygoish By.)
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.55750, -7.49602
SMR number
WM018-005001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on reclaimed grassland, c. 170m to SE of the Royal Canal. Not depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map or the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map. Identified by aerial photography in 1973 as a large oval enclosure containing a series of four oblong, roughly rectangular earthworks and three roughly square earthworks (WM018-005----) (AP taken October 1973). Monument visible today on Digital Globe aerial photography as a large, oval-shaped enclosure (approx. dims. 90m NW-SE; 68m NE-SW) containing three roughly square-shaped mounds closely arranged off-centre to SE and four oblong, roughly rectangular-shaped mounds to SW, NW, N and E.

See attached aerial photograph taken in 1973

Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien

Date of upload: 10 January 2019

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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