Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Froghanstown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Froghanstown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.62805, -7.27989
- SMR number
- WM007-096002-
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 E facing slope of rising ground. Ringfort (WM007-100----) 240m to NE. Ringfort (WM007-094---) 375m to WSW. The grass-covered wall footings of a small rectangular hut site (approx. dims. 5m NE-SW; 6m NW-SE ) are visible standing inside a small roughly rectangular-shaped annex on the NE side of a ringfort (WM007-096----) .
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 17 April 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Chapelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.