Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Dalystown (rathconrath By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dalystown (rathconrath By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.52114, -7.59558
- SMR number
- WM017-094----
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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 dry, level land, in pasture. No antiquity depicted at this location on the 1837 OS 6-inch map or the revised 1913 OS 25-inch map. Possible enclosure was first identified from an aerial photograph. Site described in 1983 as the remains of a circular-shaped enclosure, possibly a ringfort, defined by a low curvilinear earthen bank visible from SW-W-NW. There are slight indications of a ridge in the field from NE-E, which appear to continue the arc of this enclosure. There are no indications of an external fosse. There are no internal features noted. Curving arc of bank now covered in bushes is visible on Digital Globe aerial photography. Doubtful antiquity, earthwork probably associated with adjoining field system and cultivation ridges of post-1700 date.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 24 December 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.