Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Ories, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ories
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Partially hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.38886, -7.85529
- SMR number
- WM035-002----
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 low hill, in pasture. Annotated 'Fort' on the OS Fair Plan map and depicted as a D-shaped tree-planted enclosure with straight side to SW. Shown on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as the arc of a scarp (approx. C 40m) present from SE-S-W. Levelled monument described in 1983 as no surface remains visible. Faint outline of levelled ringfort visible today on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 22 November 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.