Enclosure in Fairfield, County Westmeath

What is recorded here

Situated on top of a natural rise, in gently undulating pasture with good views in all directions. Depicted on the OS 6-inch map as an oval-shaped earthwork (dims. 35m N-S; 29m E-W), depicted as a polygonal-shaped field and not as an antiquity on the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map. Levelled earthwork described in 1971 as no surface remains visible on a natural rise of land. Outline of tree-lined hillock visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WM023-073

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.

What survives: Recorded monument

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Photo credits

National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Kieran Campbell, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
Wikimedia Commons contributor · CC BY-SA 3.0
Willow, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5
Pat Byrne, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
Christophe Krief, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Sgbrito at Portuguese Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Peter Gerken, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
Engraving by Johannes Tangena. Leyden: Johannes Tangena, Print en Bockverkooper 1691., Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
Arno-nl, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0