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Earthwork

Ballykeeran, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Earthwork, Ballykeeran, 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
Ballykeeran
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.44758, -7.89589
SMR number
WM029-003----

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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)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on the edge of a ridge or rise, in woodland, overlooking Ballaghkeeran Lough to N. Depicted on the 1837 OS 6-inch map as circular-shaped tree-lined earthwork and on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a subtriangular-shaped earthwork which seems to have been incorporated into a ‘Gravel Pit’ to N.
Monument described in 1973 as a large roughly rectangular-shaped area now densely overgrown with impenetrable vegetation and largely inaccessible. The earthwork is defined by a very high steep scarp along the N side, which has been quarried. This quarry extends across most of the E half. The monument is defined by a steep bank to SE and W. There are the remains of an outer fosse along the SE side, beyond which is a field boundary consisting of a hedge-lined bank. Monument is visible today as a small coppice of woodland 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.

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