Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Ballyscarvan, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyscarvan
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.37521, -7.72447
- SMR number
- WM036-022----
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 at S end of a low ridge running NE-SW, in undulating pasture, with fairly extensive views in all directions. A public road lies c. 30m to S. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as a small oval-shaped earthwork. Shown on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a small oval-shaped earthwork (approx. dims. 13.5m E-W; 10.5m N-S). Levelled monument described in 1977 as no surface remains visible. A field fence runs NNE-SSW along the ridge and the monument appears to be located to E side of it. There is a small depression at this location, on the E side of the field fence there is a small quarry pit to SW, on the opposite side of the field fence. Levelled monument is not visible today on Digital Globe aerial photography. A house plot is visible on the W side of the field boundary.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 28 November 2019
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 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.