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
- 53.76302, -7.31078
- SMR number
- WM001-022001-
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 hazel woodland on top of a ridge running NW-SE, in area of undulating countryside with ringfort (WM001-021---) 90m to NE. A heavily overgrown platform type ringfort (WM001-022----) with the grass covered wall footings (Wth 0.9m) of a rectangular house (int. L 9.6m x int. Wth 3.5m) aligned ENE-WSW in the interior. The rath is largely overgrown with hazel and briars making detailed examination impossible.
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.