Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Hightown Or Balloughter, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Hightown Or Balloughter
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.47373, -7.20682
- SMR number
- WM027-049----
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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 on a N-facing slope, just below the summit of a steep rise, in undulating pasture, with extensive views in all directions. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map and the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a small, circular-shaped earthwork. Monument described as a circular-shaped round-bottomed depression (dims. 12m E-W; 11.7m N-S), which has been scooped out of a natural rise and is defined by a bank and a fosse. The earthen bank is well preserved and there is a narrow, shallow, steep-sided outer fosse. There is no recognisable entrance. Monument is visible today as a small circular-shaped tree-planted earthwork 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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
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- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.