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Enclosure - large enclosure

Loughagar More, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure - large enclosure, Loughagar More, 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
Loughagar More
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.55972, -7.27136
SMR number
WM019-024----

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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 on a low rise, in gently undulating pasture, with good views in all directions. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a substantial roughly oblong-shaped earthwork (approx. dims. 125m NE-SW; 68m NW-SE) which has a straight side at the SW end. Annotated 'fort' on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map where it is depicted as a large, oval shaped enclosure aligned NE-SW. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a shorter D-shaped earthwork which is truncated along the SW end by a field boundary running NW-SE.
No surface remains visible of large enclosure with possible field system immediately to SSE clearly visible on oblique aerial photographs taken 15/07/1966 (CUCAP APE028/029). Levelled monument visible today as a broad D-shaped cropmark highlighted as an area of differential growth on Digital Globe aerial photography.

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

Date of upload: 18 February 2019

References

CUCAP - Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photographs. Unit for Landscape Modelling, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. See:https://www.cambridgeairphotos.com

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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