Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - tree-ring
Glen (clonlonan By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glen (clonlonan By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.40769, -7.84401
- SMR number
- WM029-050----
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
In rough grassland, on the designed landscape of Glynnwood House located 295m to S. Outline of roughly D-shaped area (approx. dims. 52m N-S x 40m E-W ) enclosed by a bank and external fosse with straight side at W visible on Digital Globe orthophoto taken 2011-13. Depicted as a post-1700 grove of trees on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. May have been a ringfort that was landscaped as a post-1700 tree-ring.
Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 17 June 2020
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Inauguration siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.