Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Monkstown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Monkstown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.58749, -7.27014
- SMR number
- WM012-149----
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 SW facing slope of a ridge running NE-SW . No surface remains visible of monument which was levelled c. 1980. Described in this year as a sub-rectangular shaped enclosure (approx. dims. 16m NW-SE; 24m NE-SW) enclosed by a low earthen bank and shallow external fosse that is visible on the NE and SW sides, and extends from the E side of the monument in an ESE direction (approx. L 65m). Outline of levelled monument visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 6 March 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.