Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure - large enclosure
Doonamona, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doonamona
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.50405, -7.77855
- SMR number
- WM023-088----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid 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
Large circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 68m) enclosed by an earthen bank visible on Digital Globe aerial photographs. Field now planted with coniferous plantation which is visible on Google Earth orthoimagery taken 03/04/2022. Area where earthwork was recorded was planted with forestry sometime between 2009-2013.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled and revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 14 February 2023
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
- Castle - motte and baileyunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.