Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Shureen And Ballynasuddery, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shureen And Ballynasuddery
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.37900, -7.51121
- SMR number
- WM038-004----
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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 hillock, in pasture. Annotated 'Fort' and depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as an oval-shaped earthwork. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as an oval-shaped tree-lined earthwork (approx. dims. 43m NW-SE; 32m NE-SW). Not depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map. Levelled monument described in 1977 as no surface remains visible. According to local landowner there may have been a souterrain located within the interior. Levelled monument is not visible today on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 16 December 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.