Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
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
- 53.44638, -7.70115
- SMR number
- WM030-024----
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
Sub-rectangular shaped earthworks visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs may be the remains of Moyvoughly Castle. The castle is depicted on the 1657 Down Survey maps of Rathconrath barony and Ballymore parish (NLI, MS 723-4). The castle is not depicted on any edition of the OS 6-inch maps.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 12 October 2016
References
NLI, MS 723-4 - National Library of Ireland, The parish maps of the Down Survey for the County of Westmeath, attested by W. Petty, in 1659. Copied by Daniel O'Brien. A set of 67 maps with accompanying terriers in two volumes, 1786-7. Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.