Moat in Williamstown, castle in County Meath

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What is recorded here

Located towards the bottom of a W-facing slope with the headwaters of a small S-N stream c. 150m to the W. This was described in 1968 (SMR file) as a raised, subcircular and grass-covered area with trees (dims of top 17m N-S; 15m E-W; dim of base 32m N-S; H 1.7m at N to 2.3m at S) defined by scarps with traces of a fosse (Wth of top 6m; ext. D 0.2m) at N. There was a fairly modern quarry in the defining scarp at N and another grass-covered rectangular one on the scarp at S. There was no visible entrance. It had been removed by 1986.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record ME012-025

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