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Enclosure

Joristown Lower, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Joristown Lower, 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
Joristown Lower
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.53783, -7.10186
SMR number
WM020-060----

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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 slight rise, in relatively low-lying wet pasture. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a small circular-shaped earthwork (approx. diam. 14m). Monument described in 1970 as an unusually small irregular-shaped area enclosed by an earth and stone bank with traces of an external fosse. The bank is high and steep and has almost been reduced to a scarp. A large stone protrudes from the base of the bank at SE. There is a gap (Wth at top 2.7m; basal Wth 1.2m) in the inner bank and a causeway (Wth at top 2m; overall Wth 5.4m; H 0.4m) over the fosse, at ESE. The interior has a gentle ENE-facing slope and has several slight, natural depressions. Monument is visible today as a tree-lined earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography.

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

Date of upload: 05 July 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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