Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballybrennan, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybrennan
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.42858, -7.45871
- SMR number
- WM032-063----
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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 recorded in 1981 as consisting of 'an area of gently rising ground. No trace of an enclosure to be seen now' (SMR file). On the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map an irregular shaped area is indicated not as an antiquity but as an enclosure defined by a dotted line. This may indicate that the enclosure was a natural or geological feature, possibly an area of quarrying rather than an archaeological feature. The 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map shows a lime kiln 70m to the east of this possible enclosure. It is possible that this area may have been quarried in order to supply stone for the nearby lime kiln. This is an area of rock outcrop which today is covered in trees which are indicated on the revised edition of the OS 25-inch map. A cluster of four possible house sites (WM032-062/001/002/003/004-) are located immediately to the S of the enclosure.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 13 December 2010
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.