Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - indeterminate date
Brownstown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Brownstown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.65960, -7.13373
- SMR number
- WM008-036----
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 hilly grass-land. Ringfort (WM008-039---) 70m to SE. A raised sub-rectangular shaped area long axis WNW-ESE, enclosed by a grass-covered bank and traces of an outer bank and fosse at N. The monument is divided internally by an earthen bank which has gaps which may represent doorways. Appears to be the grass-covered remains of a rectangular house of unknown antiquity.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 19 April 2017
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 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.