Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - tree-ring
Ballinlig Lower, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinlig Lower
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Coordinates
- 53.46937, -7.66725
- SMR number
- WM024-188----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
An irregular shaped tree-lined earthwork or enclosure is visible on Bing Maps aerial photograph (pers. comm. C. McCormack). This enclosure is outlined on the 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map where it is depicted as an irregular-shaped grove of trees and not as an antiquity. No archaeological monument or any earthwork is depicted at this location on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. Probably the remains of a tree-ring or grove of trees dating from the late 1800s or early 1900s which was planted to enclose an area of marsh land.
Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 13 February 2014
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Water mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.