Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure - large enclosure
Croughal, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Croughal
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.49833, -7.52803
- SMR number
- WM025-006----
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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 pasture. Depicted as a circular-shaped earthwork and annotated on the 1819 Magan Estate Map as a ‘Fort’ (NLI 14A 21 (5)). Monument described in 1983 as no surface remains visible. According to local information, this is referred to as the ‘fort field’. A large, roughly semi-circular shaped area (diam. approx. 68m) defined by the arc of a field boundary from WSW-W-N-NE and continuing as a curvilinear cropmark from NE-E-ESE is visible on Digital Globe aerial photography. A post-1700 field boundary running ENE-WSW is visible traversing the SE quadrant, no cropmark visible on the SE side of field boundary.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 03 September 2019
References
NLI 14 A 21 (1-26) - National Library of Ireland, Book of maps of the estates of W. H. Magan, in the counties of Westmeath, Kildare and Dublin. Surveyed in 1817, 1819 and 1821 by J. J. Byrne. Folio volume of 26 coloured maps.
Nearby in the register
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.