Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Tonashammer, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tonashammer
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.73247, -7.24046
- SMR number
- WM004-002001-
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 natural rise of ground on poorly drained grassland with Lough Doo 90m to SE. Motte and bailey castle (WM004-001---) 520m to N. The low grass-covered earthen bank (Wth 2m; H 0.4m) of a circular hut site (diam. c. 4.3m) is visible in the NW quadrant of a ringfort (WM004-002----). No entrance feature visible. An earthen bank of unknown antiquity sub-divides the NW quadrant of the ringfort. Just outside the hut site at E is a slight irregular depression of unknown significance. There is another slight depression just outside it to SW.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 12 December 2016
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - motte and baileyunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.