Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - indeterminate date
Kilrush Upper, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilrush Upper
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.64668, -7.01307
- SMR number
- WM009-020----
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 top of a ridge in undulating countryside. Ringfort (WM009-019----) 160m to SSE. Grass-covered wall footings (H 0.3m; Wth 0.3m) of a rectangular house site (dims. 9m NE-SW; 4m NW-SE) visible. This house site is associated with a field system. Possible house site visible as a cropmark on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 28 April 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.