Building in Addinstown, County Westmeath

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What is recorded here

Situated on top of a low hill with good views of the surrounding countryside, Addinstown House located 190m to NW. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as a circular-shaped enclosure (WM014-012----) with a rectangular ruin in the interior annotated as ‘fort’ and ‘ruins’. On the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map the enclosure is depicted standing inside a square-shaped tree plantation of post-1700 date. A trig. point in the SW quadrant of the monument marks the height 301 ft. No surface remains visible of levelled enclosure or rectangular building which stood inside the enclosure.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WM014-012001

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