Enclosure in Kilbrennan, County Westmeath

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What is recorded here

Not depicted as an antiquity on any edition of the OS 6-inch maps or on the OS Fair Plan. Depicted as a small rectangular field or paddock c. 20m to the SE of a 19th century building on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. The small field may be associated with this building that was constructed between 181-1837. This small field is not depicted 1818 Boyd Belvedere Map of Kilbrennan townland (WCL/M/BBE/6). On this map the building located 20m to the NW is annotated as 'Proposed Site for Building' (ibid.).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WM033-064

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