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Moated site

Parcellstown (Moygoish By.), County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Moated site, Parcellstown, County Westmeath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Parcellstown (Moygoish By.)
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Outlined
Latest-edition OS map
Outlined
Coordinates
53.54296, -7.45262
SMR number
WM018-084----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 the W edge of the summit of a large ridge running N-S, with extensive views in all directions. Ringfort (WM018-077----) lies c. 190m to NE. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a subrectangular-shaped earthwork truncated by public road at SE. Annotated ‘fort’ on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map.
Monument described in 1980 as the much modified remains of a roughly rectangular-shaped area (approx. dims. 57m NE-SW; 41m NW-SE) enclosed by a scarp which is incorporated into field fences along the NW, where it is best preserved and on the NE side. The monument is defined by a public road along of the SE side. The perimeter has been levelled to SW. A modern house is built within the W quadrant. The remainder of the interior has been ploughed to form the garden of the house plot. A low scarp runs NW-SE across the centre of the interior and is much disturbed. The site is no longer recognisable as an antiquity. Monument is visible as a much modified subrectangular-shaped earthwork occupied by a house plot, on Digital Globe aerial photography.

Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien

Date of upload: 05 February 2019

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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