Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Hammondstown And Tonaghmore, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Hammondstown And Tonaghmore
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.74081, -7.24491
- SMR number
- WM001-050----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on top of a natural gravel hillock which is now completely levelled due to modern quarrying activities. Modern quarry located on site of monument. Depicted as a circular-shaped enclosure or earthwork on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map and as an irregular shaped mound partially quarried away on the revised 1911 ed. OS 25-inch map. This earthwork may have been the site of a castle or tower house which is depicted standing at this location on Larkin's Map of Westmeath dating from 1808 (NLI, MS 46,580).
Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 18 November 2016
References
NLI, MS 46,580 - National Library of Ireland, A map of the county of Westmeath by William Larkin. Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Castle - motte and baileyunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.