TreeAlive
‹ Sites and Monuments Record, Ireland

Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland

Enclosure

Annaskinnan, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Annaskinnan, County Westmeath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Annaskinnan
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.48926, -7.12171
SMR number
WM027-046----

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

David 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)

Get directions ↗

This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗

The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on top of a steep hillock (342ft/104m OD), in undulating pasture, with extensive views in all directions. Destroyed monument now located in the W quadrant of a modern quarry. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a penannular-shaped earthwork which is open to NW. Levelled monument described in 1971 as a subrectangular-shaped area (dims. 44m E-W; 37m N-S) enclosed by a broad belt of rough stony ground, outside which there are faint traces of an external fosse (Wth at top 3.8m; basal Wth 2.95m; D 0.05m). The monument appears to have been enclosed originally by a bank which seems to have been levelled into the fosse. The only place where the perimeter survives is either side of a gap (Wth at top 7.2m; basal Wth 1.6m) at NNW where there is a short segment of a steep scarp (max. H 5m). It is possible that this gap may represent the entrance. There is a natural looking depression just inside the gap at NNW. The interior rises from the centre to the perimeter on the E and W sides. Area of levelled monument is located today within a commercial quarry as shown on Digital Globe aerial photography.

Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.

Date of upload: 06 November 2019

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
All Enclosure in Westmeath All County Westmeath records All Ireland Heritage registers Historical markers (US)National Register of Historic Places (US)
See your own family's places on a living map