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Hut site

Coolnagun, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Hut site, Coolnagun, 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
Coolnagun
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.69527, -7.44941
SMR number
WM002-023001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · 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 on low rise of poorly drained land with stream immediately to W. Ringfort (WM002-022---) 175m to NNE, ringfort (WM002-021----) 85m to SW. Ringfort partially depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map where a quarry is shown on the W side of the earthwork. A second quarry is also depicted a few metres to the S of the earthwork on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. On the revised 1911 ed. OS 25-inch map a rectangular building is shown in the SSW quadrant of the earthwork in the area where the quarry was marked on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. The enclosing element on the W half of monument has been quarried away. Present remains consist of a large sub-triangular shaped with a rectangular-shaped flat-topped mound (13m NNW-SSE; 10.4m WSW-NNE; H 0.8-1m) in the W quadrant of the interior could be post 1700 upcast from quarrying activities along W edge of monument. There is a small rectangular enclosure (house site) (on the upper edge of the scarp on the N. In the NW quadrant close to the scarp a small sub-rectangular area delimited by an embankment of earth and stone may possible represent a house site. In the N quadrant a low earth bank extends across the interior as a form of partition delimiting a sub-rectangular area.

Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 24 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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