Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Dysart (moyashel & Magheradernon By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dysart (moyashel & Magheradernon By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.48386, -7.44477
- SMR number
- WM025-070----
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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
Surveyed in 2013 and described by McGuinness (2014, 66) as following: 'This monument was described by an ASI fieldworker in 1982 as ‘an earthen mound, rectangular in shape, flat-topped, measuring 24m N-S, by 8m-10m E-W, and rising to a height of 3.5m, the surface area of the flat top is 12m by 4.5m’ [SMR file]. It was suggested from its location that it might have been a landscape feature, although it appeared more ancient than this. Its sharply rectilinear shape, as indicated in a rough sketch by same ASI fieldworker, is certainly inconsistent with prehistoric earthen burial mounds, and it is rejected as one here'.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by David McGuinness.
Date of upload: 23 February 2015
References
McGuinness, D. 2014 The prehistoric burial mounds and related monuments of County Westmeath. Part II - Monuments in central Westmeath (Barony of Rathconrath and parts of baronies of Moygoish, Moycashel, and Moyashel & Magheradernon). Unpublished survey funded by Westmeath County Council in association with Westmeath Archaeological and Historical Society.
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.