Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Ranaghan, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ranaghan
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.65312, -7.23237
- SMR number
- WM008-023001-
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).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Situated in pasture-land on the SE face of a natural rise, with wide views of the surrounding countryside, overlooked by a high hill to the W. Ringfort (WM008-022----) 170m to SW. Ringfort (WM008-024----) 195m to NE. The remains of a rectangular shaped hut site (approx. diam. 4m E-W) with an entrance (approx. Wth 2.5m) at E is visible in the NW quadrant of ringfort (WM008-023---). A square shaped enclosure (approx. dims. 4m) adjoins this hut site at S, and a low earthen bank curves from the NE corner of the hut towards the perimeter.
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
- Road - unclassified togherunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.