What is recorded here
Situated on a natural rise surrounded by gently undulating grass-land. House (WM008-036---) 70m to NW. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as a sub-rectangular shaped enclosure annotated as 'Fort' with a small rectangular ruin in the interior. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a rectangular building (approx. dims. 15m N-S x 3m E-W) standing in the centre of a sub-rectangular shaped field (approx. dims. 45m N-S; 25m E-W). Not depicted as an antiquity on any edition of the OS maps. This site has been levelled, no surface remains visible.
Situated on a natural rise surrounded by gently undulating grass-land. House (WM008-036---) 70m to NW. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as a sub-rectangular shaped enclosure annotated as 'Fort' with a small rectangular ruin in the interior. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a rectangular building (approx. dims. 15m N-S x 3m E-W) standing in the centre of a sub-rectangular shaped field (approx. dims.…
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WM008-039
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- Recorded monument
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- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Willow, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5
- Gavigan, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Brian Shaw, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Oliver Dixon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Marathon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Illustrator not named; The Dublin Penny Journal (1835), public scan from Internet Archive and JSTOR, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
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post box1.4 miThe Sloe HillMountain / peak · 1.5 mi
European ash3.3 mi
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Font in ForeFont · 4.3 mi_(page_1_crop).jpg/250px-Fore_Abbey,_County_Westmeath,_1835_(IA_jstor-30004138)_(page_1_crop).jpg "Photo: Illustrator not named; The Dublin Penny Journal (1835), public scan from Internet Archive and JSTOR, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain")
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