Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Glen (clonlonan By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glen (clonlonan By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.40353, -7.85189
- SMR number
- WM029-036----
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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 low ridge in undulating pasture. Not depicted on an ed. OS maps. Depicted as an earthwork on Larkin’s 1808 map of Co. Westmeath (NLI, MS 46,580). Levelled monument described in 1979 as no surface remains visible. The area is now planted with conifers. Levelled monument is not visible today on Digital Globe aerial photography and the area is now part of a relatively small subrectangular-shaped conifer plantation.
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
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.