Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Littlewood, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Littlewood
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.73717, -7.28825
- SMR number
- WM003-009001-
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 on the summit of a prominent hill with good views in all directions. A large oval-shaped area ringfort (WM003-009----) with grass-covered outline of a house site visible in the centre of the interior. The site is now covered in trees and other vegetation as clearly shown on Digital Globe aerial photographs taken November 2011.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 9 December 2016
Nearby in the register
- Hilltop enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.