Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Dundonnell, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dundonnell
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Dundonnell Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Dundonnell Castle (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.50273, -7.47788
- SMR number
- WM025-010----
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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 pasture. Annotated 'Dundonnell Castle' and depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a rectangular-shaped building with its long axis aligned NW-SE. A rectangular-shaped enclosure is shown running off S end of W wall of castle. On the 1837 map the castle appears to be standing in N corner of a rectangular-shaped enclosure which could represent the remains of a bawn (WM025-010001-). Castle described in 1978 as no surface remains visible. Earthworks clearly visible to the N of the castle appear to represent the remains of a field system. Linear earthwork to NE of castle and bawn probably represents the remains of a medieval roadway (WM025-010002-) leading into the castle and bawn. This sunken way defined by a two linear banks is clearly visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 03 September 2019
Nearby in the register
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Road - hollow-wayunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.