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Hut site

Tullystown, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Hut site, Tullystown, County Westmeath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Tullystown
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.76398, -7.30932
SMR number
WM001-021001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated in area of scrub and woodland on W facing slope of hill, with ringfort (WM001-022----) 90m to SW. A heavily overgrown ringfort (WM001-021----) with the grass-covered wall footings (Wth 1.4m; H 0.6m) of a rectangular house (int. L 5m x int. Wth 4.4m), the S end of which is built up against the inner face of the bank immediately W of the ringfort entrance gap at E. The house has a wide gap in its E side at its SE corner and a narrow gap near the middle of the W side. Some stones are visible in the bank of the house but there is no visible evidence of masonry.

Compiled by Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 16 November 2016

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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