Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Clonickilvant, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonickilvant
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.53429, -7.20016
- SMR number
- WM020-070----
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
Situated on rising ground, on top of a low ridge, overlooking low lying pasture. Not depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map or the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map. Monument described in 1981 as a series of earthworks consisting of low earthen banks ridges and hollows which form no discernible pattern. The remains of a rectangular-shaped enclosure on higher ground overlooking these earthworks. Monument is visible today as a series of irregular earthworks 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.