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Earthwork

Mullingar, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Earthwork, Mullingar, 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
Mullingar
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured as a quarry
Coordinates
53.53076, -7.33511
SMR number
WM019-089002-

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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

Site located 600m NE of the town of Mullingar (WM019-089----) on gently sloping pasture with River Brosna to SE. Typical siting for a ringfort. Franciscan Friary (WM019-089013-) and Corn Mill located 280m to S. Annotated as ‘Fort’ on the 1837 Ordnance Survey Fair Plan map of Mullingar town where it is depicted as a D-shaped earthwork outlined by a dotted line with some stippling, straight side at S (SMR File). On the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map the site of the monument has been repaced by a Gravel Pit which is depicted as a circular depression. No surface remains visible of monument or of the gravel pit in the area marked on OS maps.

Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien

Date of upload: 13 June 2014

Nearby in the register

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

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