Earthwork in Rowlandstown, County Westmeath

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What is recorded here

Situated on a natural rise in grassland. The road which forms the townland boundary with Lisnacask lies 30m to N. Depicted as an earthwork on Larkin’s 1808 Map of Westmeath. No trace of an antiquity visible at this location.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WM017-014

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