Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fish-pond
Dysart (moyashel & Magheradernon By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dysart (moyashel & Magheradernon By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Inidicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.47938, -7.44375
- SMR number
- WM025-169002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
A pond located to the W of Dysart House may have the fish-pond listed in a 1609 land grant to Sir Robert Nugent of Walshestown. In this year Sir Robert Nugent was granted the manor of Disert [Dysart] which included 'a castle (WM025-169----); a hall, and a stone bawn (WM025-169001-), with a lough, a stable, two barns, a haggard, 40 messuages, 50 gardens, and a fish pond in Disert' (Cal. pat. rolls Ire., Jas I, 196).
Compiled and revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 10 November 2017
References
Cal. pat. rolls Ire., Jas I - Irish patent rolls of James I: facsimile of the Irish record commissioners' calendar prepared prior to 1830, with foreword by M.C. Griffith (Irish Manuscripts Commission, Dublin, 1966)
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Cross - High crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.