Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Knocksimon, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knocksimon
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Partially hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.48848, -7.18343
- SMR number
- WM027-034----
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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 an ESE-facing slope, in gently undulating pasture, overlooked by higher ground. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a roughly rectangular-shaped earthwork cut by a laneway at E. Monument described in 1971 as a rectangular-shaped area (dims. 30.5m N-S; 28m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank and a fosse. The bank is steep on the exterior and is almost reduced to a scarp, particularly along the E side where the monument is cut by a laneway running N-S. There is a trench along the S, W and N sides, which may have been recut along the site of the fosse. There is a disturbance gap in each corner and another in the N side. The original entrance is not recognisable. The interior has a gentle E-facing slope and has cultivation ridges running E-W within. Monument is visible today as a subrectangular-shaped tree-lined earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 06 November 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.