Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Carlanstown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carlanstown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.73812, -7.32509
- SMR number
- WM001-032001-
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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 on well drained pasture-land with good views to W & N, restricted views to E & S. The monument is covered in woodland as can be seen on Digital Globe aerial photographs taken November 2011. A low rise of ground in the centre of a ringfort (WM001-032----) represents the remains of a sub-circular house (diam. 7m) defined by a low earthen bank (Wth 1.5m; H 0.2m) with entrance gap (Wth 1.3m) at E. An L-shaped depression extending out from this structure may be the line of a souterrain (WM001-032003-). In the S sector of the ringfort (WM001-032----) there are remains of a smaller house or hut site of sub-circular plan (WM001-032002-).
Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 17 November 2016
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 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.