Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Fairfield, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fairfield
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.45137, -7.76258
- SMR number
- WM023-073----
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 top of a natural rise, in gently undulating pasture with good views in all directions. Depicted on the OS 6-inch map as an oval-shaped earthwork (dims. 35m N-S; 29m E-W), depicted as a polygonal-shaped field and not as an antiquity on the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map. Levelled earthwork described in 1971 as no surface remains visible on a natural rise of land. Outline of tree-lined hillock visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 29 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.