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Enclosure

Clonlost, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Clonlost, 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
Clonlost
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.55702, -7.18921
SMR number
WM020-014----

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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

Situated on a steep, natural rise (109m/359ft OD), in gently undulating pasture with good views in all directions. Ringfort (WM020-013----) lies c. 95m to S. Annotated 'Fort' on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map where it is depicted as an subrectilinear-shaped earthwork (approx. dims. 66m N-S; 48m E-W). Levelled monument described in 1970 as having just been deep ploughed. All that remains is a scarp (max. H 1.50m) extending from SSE-S-SSW, however this could be naturally formed. The plough has revealed two concentrations of stones within the interior; their significance is unknown. An ESB pole stands near the centre of the site. Monument is visible today as a faint cropmark of an irregular suboval-shaped earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography.

Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien

Date of upload: 05 June 2019

Nearby in the register

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

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