Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Higginstown (farbill By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Higginstown (farbill By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.53385, -7.13191
- SMR number
- WM020-092----
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 in low-lying pasture. Depicted on Longford Estate Map of 1767 as a circular-shaped earthwork. Not depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map or the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map. Levelled monument described in 1983 as no surface remains visible. Levelled earthwork is visible as a circular-shaped cropmark on Digital Globe aerial photography. There is a linear cropmark running NE-SW close to SW of this earthwork that continues towards ringfort (WM020-081----) 265m to SW.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 08 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.