Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Johnstown (moygoish By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Johnstown (moygoish By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.57484, -7.44934
- SMR number
- WM011-127----
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 top of a prominent hill surrounded by gently undulating grassland overlooked by nearby hill to the E, with excellent views in all other directions. A raised sub-rectangular shaped area (approx. dims. 33m NW-SE; 20m N-S) enclosed by a well preserved earthen bank and shallow external fosse visible from N-SE. Small entrance gap through fosse and bank on the SE. The interior is sub-divided into two separate enclosures. The larger is sub-rectangular (approx. dims. 23m NW-SE-18m NE-SW) in shape, the smaller is at a lower level to the NW and is also rectilinear (dims. 14m NE-SW; 10m NW-SE) and seems to function as an annexe to the main enclosure. A low bank runs NE-SW across the interior of the main enclosure. A field fence running NNE-SSW intersects the perimeter of the monument from W to S. The trig[onometrical] station marking 380 ft. height as shown on the current OS 6-inch map is not visible on the ground.
See attached plan of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 29 August 2017
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.