Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Ballynascarry, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynascarry
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.77439, -7.30786
- SMR number
- WM001-012001-
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 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a low ridge of ground running N-S with good views to W and NW but limited by higher ground on other sides. Ballynascarry House located 770m to E and similar tree-lined earthwork (WM001-013----) located 480m to N. Depicted as a designed landscaped tree-ring on all editions of the OS maps and not as an antiquity. Ringfort (WM001-012---) which was converted into a tree-ring in the post-1700 period possibly by the occupants of Ballynascarry House. A rectangular depression (dims. 5m NE-SW x 8m NW-SE) in the centre of the ringfort (WM001-012----) which is defined by loose stones may represent the remains of a house site.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 15 November 2016
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.