Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Hilltown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Hilltown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.72247, -7.25533
- SMR number
- WM003-048----
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 E-W ridge, Hilltown House and castle (WM003-027----) 270m to NE. This site is not marked on any edition of the OS 6-inch maps. A roughly square-shaped area (diam. 32m N-S; 29m E-W) enclosed by a wide low earth and stone bank with evidence of internal stone facing at S & E. No clear entrance feature visible. Small piles of stone probably the result of field clearance lie against the outer edge of the bank along the SE side. The interior is level and free of scrub but has traces of old cultivation ridges running NW-SE across the monument.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 5 January 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.