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Earthwork

Killahugh, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Earthwork, Killahugh, 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
Killahugh
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.52352, -7.52430
SMR number
WM018-104----

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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 in undulating pasture, with good views in all directions. No monument depicted at this location on any editions of the OS 6-inch maps. A pencilled note in the SMR file field map for this location refers to ‘complex medieval earthwork[s]’.
Levelled earthworks described in 1980 as no surface remains visible. The area has been levelled and the field fence marked on the OS map running NE-SW to S, has been removed. There are a number of narrow bands (approx. Wth 0.75m) of differential growth where there is paler grass than elsewhere running roughly NE-SW across the field. This may represent levelled portions of the earthworks. The levelled earthworks are not visible today on Digital Globe aerial photography.

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

Date of upload: 08 February 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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