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Moated site

Loughanstown (Corkaree By.), County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Moated site, Loughanstown, 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
Loughanstown (Corkaree By.)
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Outlined
Coordinates
53.58757, -7.35735
SMR number
WM012-097----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · 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 SE facing slope of a long undulating ridge in a wet grassland, with good views from SE-SW. Ringfort (WM012-103---) 200m to SW. Unclassified castle (WM012-114---) 450m to SE. Cropmark of levelled monument barely visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. Upstanding monument described in 1970 as a rectangular shaped area (approx. dims. 25m NW-SE; 30m NE-SW) enclosed by a well preserved earth and stone bank with steep external which is deepest on the E and W sides. There is an entrance gap (Wth 1.9m) and causeway across the fosse (Wth 2m) at ENE. Traces of a sub-rectangular shaped structure are visible in the SW quadrant of the interior which possibly could be the remains of a house site. Outline of moated site clearly visible on aerial photograph taken 1968 (CUCAP AVO058).

See attached plan of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.

Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 19 February 2018

References

CUCAP - Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photographs. Unit for Landscape Modelling, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. See:https://www.cambridgeairphotos.com

Nearby in the register

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

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