Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Hiskinstown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Hiskinstown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.57950, -7.13922
- SMR number
- WM013-062----
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 in well drained grassland with ringfort (WM013-096---) 50m to W. Possible site of levelled castle of Hiskinstown. According to Adams (1959, 59) a sub-rectangular-shaped enclosure defined by a low earthen bank marks the site of the levelled castle. This enclosure appears to form part of a wider complex of earthworks that are visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 10 April 2018
References
Adams, F.R.G. 1959 Castletown-Delvin roundabout. Ríocht na Mídhe II (1), 51-61.
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - bowl-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.