Earthwork in Mullingar, County Westmeath

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What is recorded here

Site located 600m NE of the town of Mullingar (WM019-089----) on gently sloping pasture with River Brosna to SE. Typical siting for a ringfort. Franciscan Friary (WM019-089013-) and Corn Mill located 280m to S. Annotated as ‘Fort’ on the 1837 Ordnance Survey Fair Plan map of Mullingar town where it is depicted as a D-shaped earthwork outlined by a dotted line with some stippling, straight side at S (SMR File). On the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map the site of the monument has been repaced by a Gravel Pit which is depicted as a circular depression. No surface remains visible of monument or of the gravel pit in the area marked on OS maps.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WM019-089002

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National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
kevin higgins, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Aerobug/Grace, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Computer-made picture. It does not show this playground.
Copper1993, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Brian Shaw, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Bridget Neville, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

aqueduct, mill race280 yd

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bridge352 yd

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canal (section of)412 yd

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Harbour HouseHouse · 561 yd

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Mullingar Presbyterian ChurchChurch/chapel · 564 yd

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dry dock570 yd

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Augustinian Monks Memorial StatueMemorial · 595 yd

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Children's playground678 ydComputer-made picture. It does not show this playground.

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Courthouse in MullingarCourthouse · 756 yd

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Famine MemorialMemorial · 950 yd

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Saint Brigid's WellSpring · 1.5 mi

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Church IslandIsland · 3.0 mi

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