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Castle - unclassified

Dundonnell, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - unclassified, Dundonnell, County Westmeath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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