Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Petitswood, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Petitswood
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.53621, -7.30302
- SMR number
- WM019-062----
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 on a gentle rise, in pasture. Annotated 'earthwork' on Larkin’s 1808 map of Co. Westmeath. Levelled monument described in 1980 as no surface remains visible. Monument is not visible on Digital Globe aerial photography and the area is now occupied by a modern bungalow.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 04 June 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Battlefieldunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.