Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Strattonstown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Strattonstown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.51430, -7.45699
- SMR number
- WM018-135----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 a low rise at the base of E facing slope of a ridge running N-S, in low-lying wet pasture, with good views to N, E and S. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a substantial earthwork (approx. dims. 53m NE-SW; 34m NW-SE) defined by a scarp. Described in 1980 as no surface remains visible. The field fences to W and S have been removed. Levelled monument is not visible today on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 12 February 2019
Nearby in the register
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Burial moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.