Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure - large enclosure
Newdown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newdown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.50479, -7.23908
- SMR number
- WM027-076----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Cropmark of circular-shaped bivallate enclosure (approx. diam. 50m; overall ext. diam. 64m) visible on Google earth aerial imagery.
See attached image of Google Earth photograph taken 02/07/2018
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Edward O'Riordan
Date of upload: 21 October 2019
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.