Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - indeterminate date
Castletown (moycashel By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castletown (moycashel By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.45370, -7.49382
- SMR number
- WM025-142001-
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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 slight rise, in gently undulating pasture. In the interior of ringfort (WM025-142----) adjoining the base of the bank at NW. Monument described in 1971 as a slight depression (3.7m NE-SW; 2.6m NW-SE) with a very slight mound (int. H 0.1m; max. ext. H 0.35m; Wth c. 1.8m) on its upper edge at the SW end. This may be the remains of a house site.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 27September 2019
Nearby in the register
- Anomalous stone groupunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.