Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Kilgar, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilgar
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.67148, -7.11883
- SMR number
- WM008-019001-
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 atop natural hillock in undulating pasture-land with, with excellent views in all directions. A pair of conjoined huts (diam. of larger hut 6.2m; diam. of smaller hut 4.7m) is visible as a crop mark in the interior of a levelled ringfort (WM008-019---).
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 19 April 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.