Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Ballinriddera, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinriddera
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.62877, -7.35665
- SMR number
- WM007-079001-
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 in pasture-land on the NW face of a ridge which runs SE-NW. A rectangular hut site (dims. 5.4m NW-SE; 3.5m NE-SW) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 1.7m; H 0.45m) is located in the NE quadrant of a ringfort (WM007-079---). The internal face of the ringfort bank forms the NE wall of the hut.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 15 April 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 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.