Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Plodstown (moyashel & Magheradernon By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Plodstown (moyashel & Magheradernon By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.50427, -7.30297
- SMR number
- WM026-016----
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 slight rise, in gently undulating pasture, with good views to E. Ringfort (WM026-015----) c. 12m to WNW. Annotated as a circular-shaped earthwork on the fieldwork map (SMR file). Monument described in 1971 as a rectangular-shaped area (dims. 27.5m E-W; 22m N-S) enclosed by a bank and external fosse. The bank is low and broad and is best preserved along the S and W sides. It is almost reduced to a scarp along the N side, with a counterscarp at the base, and has been quarried along most of the E side. The fosse is shallow and is best preserved along the S and W sides. There is no clear entrance and no obvious features within the interior. Monument is visible as faint rectangular-shaped earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography.
See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 30 September 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.