Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Ballygarvey, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballygarvey
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.62988, -7.56088
- SMR number
- WM005-012----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a slight natural rise surrounded by marshy land which is liable to flooding. Bog land 465m to the S, stream marking boundary with Longford County 260m to W. Ringfort (WM005-011----) 45m to NNE, ringfort (WM005-013---) 200m to E, ringfort (WM005-015----) 100m to S. Depicted as a small circular-shaped earthwork on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. Annotated as 'Moat' on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map. No surface remains visible. Described in 1972 as a small circular-shaped area (approx. diam. c. 7m) defined by a grass covered earth and stone bank with internal stone facing standing one course high, with faint traces of an external fosse. A gap (Wth 2.1m) at NE represents the entrance, which opens towards the nearby ringfort (WM005-011---). A field report from 1978 describes this as having been ‘recently destroyed by bulldozing’ (ASI Field Report).
Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 20 December 2016
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.