Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Settlement deserted - medieval
Dunnamona, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dunnamona
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.50276, -7.78703
- SMR number
- WM023-012----
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 low lying, gently undulating, wet pasture, Anglo-Norman motte and bailey castle (WM023-013001-) 190m to SSE. Not depicted on the 1837 OS 6-inch map or the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map. Monument described in 1981 as an extensive system of ridges and depressions which may represent a medieval settlement. Some on the higher and drier ground may be archaeological whilst others on the low lying ground appear to be the remains of drainage features.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 23 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Castle - motte and baileyunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.