Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure - large enclosure
Rahinmore, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rahinmore
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Coordinates
- 53.38613, -7.44898
- SMR number
- WM038-009----
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 in undulating pasture. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a substantial subcircular-shaped earthwork (approx. dims. 68m ENE-WSW; 58m NNW-SSE) adjoining the S side of a ‘Corn & Tuck Mill’ complex. Depicted on the 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as an irregular-shaped enclosure which is open to the mill complex at N. Levelled monument is visible today as a large suboval-shaped cropmark on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 17 December 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - stepped barrowunder 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.