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Enclosure

Lisnagree, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Lisnagree, 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
Lisnagree
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Outlined
Latest-edition OS map
Outlined
Coordinates
53.43416, -7.60429
SMR number
WM031-052----

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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 prominent natural hillock, on the NE shoulder of a hill, in pasture, with extensive views from WNW-N-E-ESE and overlooked by higher ground in all other directions. Annotated 'Fort' on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map and depicted s a rectangular-shaped enclosure or small field. Shown on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a trapezoidal-shaped enclosure (approx. dims. 31m NE-SW; max. 28m NW-SE). Monument described in 1982 as no surface remains visible. All of the field fences shown on the OS maps in this vicinity have been removed. Levelled enclosure is not visible today on Digital Globe aerial photography.

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

Date of upload: 13 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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