Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - hollow-way
Ballynaclin, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynaclin
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.51810, -7.42564
- SMR number
- WM018-168----
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 rising ground 150m E of large hilltop enclosure or possible henge (WM018-134----). The remains of a hollow way or sunken road (L 171m x Wth 20m) flanked on either side by a low earthen bank leading towards the hilltop enclosure at Ballynaclin is clearly visible on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 12 February 2019
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Hengeunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.