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Ecclesiastical enclosure

Mullingar,Petitswood, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ecclesiastical enclosure, Mullingar, Petitswood, 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,Petitswood
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
53.52253, -7.33561
SMR number
WM019-100----

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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

The curving townland boundary of Petitswood with the townland of Mullingar from S-W has been identified by Paul Gosling as the potential bank of an early ecclesiastical enclosure (diam. c. 230m E-W x 160m N-S). Sunday Well (WM019-089011-) lies 20m to the W. The townland boundary is depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as the curving boundary of Petitswood. The area inside the enclosure is now occupied by modern houses of Auburn Village on the S outskirts of Mullingar town. The line of the enclosure along its N and E sectors is not preserved but can be extrapolated from the 60% of its perimeter which does survive along the S and W.

See attached oblique aerial photograph taken 1964 showing the curving townland boundary of Petitswood (CUCAP AJN042; https://www.cambridgeairphotos.com/location/ajn042/)

Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien based on details provided by Paul Gosling

Date of upload: 3 November 2021

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.

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