Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Carnpark, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carnpark
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.42268, -7.79763
- SMR number
- WM030-031----
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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 N-facing slope of quite a steep ridge, in gently undulating pasture. Settlement cluster (WM030-123----) lies c. 15m to NW. Annotated ‘Earthwork’ on Larkin’s 1808 map of Co. Westmeath (NLI, MS 46,580). Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a small coppice of trees. Levelled monument described in 1979 as no surface remains visible. There are numerous rock outcrops across this area and perhaps the earthwork was situated on one of these. A number of tree stumps can be seen forming an arc against the SE side of a field wall running NE-SW, which would correspond to the small coppice of trees depicted on the 1910 OS map. Levelled monument is visible today on Digital Globe aerial photography as a roughly circular-shaped cropmark (approx. dims. 22m NW-SE; 21m NE-SW).
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 08 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
- Settlement clusterunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.