Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Loughagar More, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Loughagar More
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.56505, -7.25893
- SMR number
- WM019-027----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Situated at the entrance of a driveway to Newgrove house and farmyard. A circular grove of trees is depicted N of Newgrove House on 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. Annotated 'fort' on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map where it is depicted as an oval shaped tree-planted enclosure with its long axis N-S in area to N of ‘Newgrove’. The Ordnance survey recorded the following about Newgrove; 'A good dwelling house with an ancient fort under plantation close by its northern side' (OSNB No. 49, 19).
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 18 February 2019
References
OSNB - Ordnance Survey Name Books. Pro-forma books arranged by Civil Parish for recording townland and other name-forms and compiled in the course of the OS 6-inch survey 1824-1841. The name books also include minor names and incidental references to antiquities. National Archives of Ireland.
Nearby in the register
- Burial moundunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.