Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Loughanstown (corkaree By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
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----
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 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.