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Enclosure

Creeve (Clonlonan By.), County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Creeve, 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
Creeve (Clonlonan By.)
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Outlined
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.44621, -7.80846
SMR number
WM030-005----

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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 a rise, in pasture. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as a roughly circular-shaped enclosure. Shown on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a suboval-shaped enclosure (approx. dims. 45m NE-SW; 41m NW-SE). Not depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map. Monument described in 1973 as a roughly circular-shaped, much disturbed earthwork which is defined by field boundaries from W-N-NE and it is difficult to trace the original embankment from NE-E-S-W. The monument has been quarried across the N and S sector. The interior has an E-facing slope and is partially overgrown with bushes and briars. Monument is visible today as a tree-planted earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography.

Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.

Date of upload: 07 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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