Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mass-rock
Davidstown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Davidstown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.54182, -7.51916
- SMR number
- WM018-051002-
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 flat pasture. A large, flat megalith, which is reputed to have been a mass rock, is located immediately S of ringfort (WM018-051----). Mass rock is not visible on Digital Globe aerial photography.
See attached plan and profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 04 February 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.