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Moated site

Ballymanus, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Moated site, Ballymanus, County Westmeath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballymanus
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.72851, -7.28422
SMR number
WM003-014----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on top of a low natural hillock with good views to S and SW, with stream 65m to NW. Ringfort (WM006-025----) 415m to ENE and possible souterrain (WM003-013001-) 170m to SW. A rectangular-shaped area (approx. dims. 20m N-S ; 28m E-W) enclosed by a low poorly preserved earthen bank mainly reduced to a scarp with traces of an external fosse visible at W only. No entrance feature visible. The interior is uneven, rising towards the centre. There may have been a house or other features in the centre of the earthwork, however this area is somewhat disturbed and cannot be properly deciphered now. Earthwork now covered in trees and scrub vegetation as clearly shown on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011,

Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 21 December 2016

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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