Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Moyvoughly, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moyvoughly
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.45150, -7.71942
- SMR number
- WM023-078002-
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 on a very slight rise, in relatively low-lying, wet pasture, with good views of the surrounding landscape. Ringfort (WM023-078001-) lies c. 12m to E. Monument described in 1971 as a small rectangular-shaped area (dims. 20m NE-SW; 11m NW-SE) enclosed by a bank and external fosse, possible entrance gap (Wth at top 3.7m; basal Wth 1.5m) at W. The bank is very low with faint traces of an external fosse. A Preservation Order was placed on this monument on 11/02/1975 (SMR file). Enclosure is barely visible today as a faint cropmark on Digital Globe aerial photograph.
See attached plan and profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 29 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.