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Earthwork

Shureen And Ballynasuddery, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Earthwork, Shureen And Ballynasuddery, County Westmeath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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