Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Dalystown (rathconrath By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dalystown (rathconrath By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.52111, -7.61230
- SMR number
- WM017-091----
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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 generally flat, low-lying pasture, to E of a wet marshy area. Monument depicted as a trapezoidal-shaped earthwork on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map. Described in 1983 as a roughly rectangular-shaped area (dims. 35m E-W; 26m N-S) enclosed by a low earthen bank, which is best preserved along the W side and is almost reduced to a scarp from N, E and S. There are a number of gaps in the bank. There are slight traces of an external fosse, particularly to W and S. A roughly rectangular shaped feature near the centre of the interior may represent a hut site (WM017-091001-). Outlined of levelled monument visible today as a roughly rectangular-shaped cropmark on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 20 December 2018
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.