Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Moyvoughly, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moyvoughly
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.44613, -7.72641
- SMR number
- WM030-018----
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 NNW-facing slope, in wet undulating pasture, overlooking the Tang River c. 100m to NW. Ringforts (WM030-016----/-017----) lie c. 150m to NW and c. 190m to WNW, respectively. Depicted as an earthwork on Larkin’s 1808 map of Co. Westmeath (NLI, MS 46,580). Monument described in 1983 as no surface remains visible. Monument is not visible today and the area has been planted with forestry on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 07 November 2019
References
NLI, MS 46,580 - National Library of Ireland, A map of the county of Westmeath by William Larkin. Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.