Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - tree-ring
Craddanstown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Craddanstown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.53806, -7.09202
- SMR number
- WM021-001----
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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 a low rise, in generally level pasture, with excellent views to NW and SE. Depicted as a circular-shaped earthwork on the Longford Estate Map of 1767 and Larkin’s 1808 Map of Co. Westmeath. Depicted on the 1837 OS 6-inch map as an oval-shaped tree-ring. Monument described in 1980 as a natural rise or ridge which was planted with trees in antiquity. There is a large shallow depression in the N side of the ridge where quarrying activities took place in the past. A slight mound on the top of the ridge at the S end of the depression is probably due to up-cast from the quarrying. The area of the depression and the ridge just S of it is overgrown with trees. No surface remains visible of an earthwork. This appears to be a landscape feature of Craddockstown House, which lies c. 190m to NW. The site is visible as a modern farmyard on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 09 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.