Dotted outline in Redmondstown, County Westmeath

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What is recorded here

Situated in pasture. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a subrectangular-shaped earthwork and on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a roughly oval-shaped earthwork. Levelled monument described in 1977 as no surface remains visible. Site of levelled monument visible today as a faintsroughly oval-shaped cropmark on Digital Globe aerial photography.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WM025-092

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