Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Mullanakill, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mullanakill
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.68958, -7.30760
- SMR number
- WM003-094----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on the NE face of a gentle slope in grassland. A rectangular shaped area (approx. dims. 36m NNW-SSE; 43m ENE-WSW) enclosed by a very low earthen bank and a shallow external fosse. The bank has been reduced to a scarp at NW. The interior slopes from SW-NE. This feature is part of a larger field as depicted on the 1st ed. map and not depicted as an antiquity. Outline of rectangular shaped earthwork is clearly visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 25 May 2017
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Memorial stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.