Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
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
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.47407, -7.43777
- SMR number
- WM025-112----
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 in relatively low-lying, rough, wet pasture with good views in all directions. Depicted on the 1837 OS 6-inch map as a subtriangular-shaped earthwork. Incorporated into a deserted medieval settlement (WM025-111004-) and an ancient field system (WM025-111001-). Enclosures (WM025-114----/-113----) lie c. 87m to SE and 105m to SW, respectively. Monument described as a subtriangular-shaped area (dims. 41m N-S) enclosed by a low, rounded bank which is almost reduced to a scarp with no visible trace of an external fosse, a possible entrance gap visible at NNE. The interior has traces of cultivation ridges running E-W. Monument is visible today as an irregular-shaped earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography.
See attached profile surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 23 September 2019
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.