Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - tree-ring
Gaybrook Demesne, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gaybrook Demesne
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Coordinates
- 53.46853, -7.31434
- SMR number
- WM026-076----
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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
Situated in pasture, on former demesne lands associated with Gaybrook House. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as a circular enclosure in a plantation, which is not marked as a fort. Depicted on the 1837 OS 6-inch map as a perfectly circular-shaped enclosure, in woodland. Levelled monument described in 1983 as no surface remains visible. The OS mapping may have depicted a clearing in woodland which is likely to have been an estate feature. A faint trace of a circular-shaped cropmark can be seen on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 01 November 2019
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.