Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballybrennan, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybrennan
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.42543, -7.46491
- SMR number
- WM032-061----
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
This monument was inspected in 1971 and described as follows: 'On top of a prominent hillock with extensive views in all directions. There is no visible trace of an antiquity at this location' (SMR file). Depicted as an irregular-shaped enclosure on the first ed. OS 6-inch map but not indicated on subsequent editions of the OS 6-inch maps. Site of monument is located in centre of a circular woodland plantation that is depicted on subsequent editions of the OS maps. This woodland plantation no longer survives and there are no visible remains of the monument on the 2005 OSI aerial photographs of this area.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 06 March 2013
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.