Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Dysart (moyashel & Magheradernon By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dysart (moyashel & Magheradernon By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.48185, -7.45177
- SMR number
- WM025-068----
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 top of a small oval hillock, in gently undulating pasture, with good views in all directions. Ringfort (WM025-069----) lies c. 25m to NE. Annotated 'Fort' on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map. Levelled monument described in 1971 as no surface remains visible. The perimeter can be partially traced as a cropmark (C. 19m NW-SE) forming an arc from NNW-N-E-ESE which is defined by a narrow band of vegetation which contrasts with the surrounding field. This band forms a straight line to NE confirming that the enclosure was D-shaped. A low, broad bank intersects the cropmark at NE. Other slight banks can be traced in the vicinity between this monument and the ringfort to NE. No remains of levelled monument visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 11 September 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.