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Designed landscape - tree-ring

Moydrum (brawny By.), County Westmeath, Ireland

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Townland
Moydrum (brawny By.)
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Outlined
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.42055, -7.86803
SMR number
WM029-049----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

In rough grassland. Outline of circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 40m) visible on Digital Globe orthophoto taken 2011-13. Depicted as a post-1700 tree-ring on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. May have been a ringfort that was reused as a post-1700 tree-ring.

Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien

Date of upload: 17 June 2020

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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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