Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Lisnagree, County Westmeath, Ireland
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----
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
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.