Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure - large enclosure
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
- 53.47299, -7.43608
- SMR number
- WM025-114----
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 a fairly flat, rough, wet pasture with a good view to E and S and moderate views to W and N. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as subrectangular-shaped earthwork. Incorporated into a deserted medieval settlement (WM025-111004-) and an ancient field system (WM025-111001-). Enclosures (WM025-113----/-112----) lie c. 85m to W and c. 87m to NW, respectively. Monument described as a large subrectangular-shaped earthwork enclosure by a low well preserved earthen bank with no trace of an external fosse and no entrance feature visible. The interior is fairly level with a very slight S-facing slope and is cut by old cultivation ridges running N-S. In the vicinity there are slight remains of the surrounding field system in the form of low banks, although none make contact with the monument. Monument is visible today as a long subrectangular-shaped earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography. A Preservation Order was placed on this monument 26/02/1966 (SMR file).
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.