Earthwork in Glenidan, County Westmeath

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What is recorded here

Situated on a small natural ridge bisected by a field fence running NE-SW. Possible mound-barrow (WM008-014----) 140m to SW. Depicted as an earthwork on Larkin’s 1808 map of county Westmeath (NLI, MS 46,580), and as a quarry on the 1911 ed. OS 6-inch map. No visible remains of an antiquity at this location. The earthwork may have been related to post-1700 quarrying of the exposed bedrock.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WM008-015

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