Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Porterstown (napper), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Porterstown (napper)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.50029, -7.17865
- SMR number
- WM027-082----
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 irregular-shaped sunken area (approx. diam. 32m) visible on Google earth aerial imagery, could be the remains of a shallow gravel quarry.
See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 20/11/2005
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère
Date of upload: 6 March 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.