Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
Tuitestown (moyashel & Magheradernon By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tuitestown (moyashel & Magheradernon By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.52438, -7.45835
- SMR number
- WM018-115002-
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
Curve of earthworks in field to E of church (WM018-115----) graveyard (WM018-115001-) possibly indicates the presence of an Early Christian ecclesiastical enclosure (Swan 1988, 24).
Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 13 October 2015
References
Swan, D.L. 1988 The Early Christian ecclesiastical sites of County Westmeath. In J. Bradley (ed.), Settlement and society in Medieval Ireland: studies presented to F.X. Martin O.S.A., 1-31. Kilkenny. Boethius Press.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.