What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Dysart (moyashel & Magheradernon By.) is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Dysart (moyashel & Magheradernon By.), County Westmeath, Ireland. The 1837 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map depicted the site as a circular-shaped earthwork measuring 48 metres in the north-east to south-west direction and 41 metres in the north-west to south-east direction. This levelled enclosure incorporates a field boundary running from south-east through south to southwest and is no longer depicted on the revised 1913 edition of the Ordnance Survey twenty-five-inch map. A faint outline of the site remains visible on Digital Globe aerial photography.

Situated in pasture c. 55m to W of the historic shoreline of Lough Ennel and c. 500m from the present day shoreline. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular-shaped earthwork (dims. 48m NE-SW; 41m NW-SE) which incorporates a field boundary from SE-S-SW. Not depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map. The faintest outline of this levelled enclosure is visible today on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 11 September 2019

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