Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Tullystown, County Westmeath, Ireland
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-
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 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.