Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Ballynameagh, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynameagh
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.72386, -7.35127
- SMR number
- WM003-004----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 a low natural rise of ground surrounded by wet poorly drained land with stream 80m to W. Rock of Curry and the Hill of Mael visible 1.8km and 2.8km to the ENE respectively. Cropmark of levelled enclosure visible on Digital Globe aerial photographs taken November 2011. Old cultivation ridges roughly aligned E-W can be seen running across surface of levelled monument. Depicted as a roughly rectangular-shaped enclosure on 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. An OPW report from 1966 described the monument as a 'rectangular enclosure with slight bank and old thorn trees on bank. An oldish field or garden on edge of long (alt 200-300 ft) with shelter belt of thorns. Not ancient in appearance but not now used as a separate field’ (OPW Field Report 08/12/1966). Today there are no surface remains visible of this levelled monument.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 8 December 2016
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.