Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Piercetown (Rathconrath By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Piercetown (Rathconrath By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.55561, -7.61120
- SMR number
- WM017-004----
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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 top of a small hill in grassland with extensive views in all directions. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan maps as a small rectilinear enclosure and annotated as ‘fort’ with a gravel pit immediately outside the NE corner. Remains consist of a rectangular-shaped area (approx. dims. 17m NW-SE; 16m NE-SW) enclosed by a low, poorly preserved earthen bank. Traces of cultivation ridges are visible running E-W in the field outside the site.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 13 February 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.