Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
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
- 53.49604, -7.77767
- SMR number
- WM023-016----
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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 rough pasture with bedrock visible. Castle depicted as a tower house type structure on the Down Survey map of Drumraney parish (NLI, MS 723-4). On this 17th century map the castle is depicted on lands belonging to Garratt and James Dillon (ibid.). Annotated ‘Ruin’ on Larkin's 1808 Map of County Westmeath (NLI, MS 46,580). Possible castle site described in 1978 and 1983 as no surface remains visible. A roughly triangular-shaped area defined by a low scarp from E-S-W-NW and by a laneway from NW-N-E may mark the site of this medieval castle. The scarp may have continued N of the laneway where a large area of ground has been levelled.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 23 July 2019
References
NLI, MS 723-4 - National Library of Ireland, The parish maps of the Down Survey for the County of Westmeath, attested by W. Petty, in 1659. Copied by Daniel O'Brien. A set of 67 maps with accompanying terriers in two volumes, 1786-7. Dublin.
NLI, MS 46,580 - National Library of Ireland, A map of the county of Westmeath by William Larkin. Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.