Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Crosswood, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Crosswood
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.41501, -7.85684
- SMR number
- WM029-029----
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
Situated on N-facing slope of a ridge running NW-SE, to the immediate N of Athlone-Mullingar railway line, on the E edge of Athlone town. Depicted as an earthwork on Larkin’s 1808 map of Co. Westmeath (NLI, MS 46,580). Not depicted on any ed. OS maps. Levelled monument described in 1973 as no surface remains visible. Levelled monument is not visible today on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 07 November 2019
References
NLI, MS 46,580 - National Library of Ireland, A map of the county of Westmeath by William Larkin. Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - summer houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.