Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Mullingar, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mullingar
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.52936, -7.33666
- SMR number
- WM019-101----
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
In flat pasture immediately N of the Royal Canal, in a field known locally as Springfield. Earthwork (WM019-089002-) 160m to NE. Irregular-shaped earthwork visible on LiDAR image. Faint traces of cropmark of possible circular-shaped earthwork visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. Slight undulations in field visible in area where cropmark is visible on Digital Globe orthoimage.
See attached LiDAR image courtesy of Justin Moffatt
Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien based on details provided by Justin Moffatt
Date of upload: 25 March 2023
Nearby in the register
- Religious house - Franciscan friarsunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Town defencesunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.