Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Settlement deserted - medieval
Slanestown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Slanestown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.53086, -7.41576
- SMR number
- WM018-118----
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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
A cluster of cottages are shown in this general area on the 17th century Down Survey map of Mullingar parish (NLI, MS 723-4). No earthworks or cabins depicted in this area on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map or the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map. Site of possible deserted settlement described in 1983 as no surface remains visible at area marked on the RMP map for Co. Westmeath. A complex series of linear earthworks visible on Digital Globe aerial photography 425m to the NNE of the area marked on the RMP map may be the remains of this clustered settlement depicted on the Down Survey map of Mullingar parish.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 11 February 2019
References
NLI, MS 723-4 - National Library of Ireland, The parish maps of the Down Survey for the County of Westmeath, attested by W. Petty, in 1659. Copied by Daniel O'Brien. A set of 67 maps with accompanying terriers in two volumes, 1786-7. Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.