Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Newdown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newdown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.51441, -7.23124
- SMR number
- WM020-103----
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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 low-lying, rough pasture with very wet and boggy ground to N and W and scrub to S and E. Not depicted on the 1837 OS 6-inch map or the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map. Described as ‘Dunlis Castle (site of)’ (SMR file). Monument described in 1981 as no surface remains visible. At the location marked on the OS map there is a large mound which appears to be a natural rock outcrop. Immediately around the base of the mound there is a swampy area with reeds and rushes. There is a raised roughly rectangular-shaped platform on top of the mound which could potentially delineate the foundation of a building, although there are no standing remains of the castle. The mound has been severely pock-marked by quarrying. At the E end of the mound there is a small raised, rectangular-shaped area which appears to have been a cultivation patch with lazy beds and a drainage ditch running beside it. Monument is not visible on Digital Globe aerial photography, although the rock outcrop is evident.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 08 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.