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Designed landscape - tree-ring

Curristown Or Bellmount, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Designed landscape - tree-ring, Curristown Or Bellmount, 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
Curristown Or Bellmount
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Outlined
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.50899, -7.40806
SMR number
WM018-145----

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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 gently undulating and hummocky pasture. A possible mound (WM018-147----) lies c. 67m to SW. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as the outline of a roughly circular-shaped tree-ring. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a roughly circular-shaped earthwork.
Monument described as a circular-shaped, round-topped hillock (diam. 27m) enclosed at the base by a relatively modern-looking bank, which resembles a scarp in places and has the remains of a slight external fosse-like feature. A steep-sided gap (Wth at top 3.6m; basal Wth 2m) at NE may represent the entrance. A large portion of the hillock has been quarried at W. A modern field fence contacts the scarp at E. The site may be a tree-ring on the estate of Belmont House which lies c. 365m to SW. Monument is visible as a subcircular-shaped earthwork 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

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

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
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