Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Icehouse
Baronstown Demesne, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Baronstown Demesne
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.61233, -7.50117
- SMR number
- WM011-004----
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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 the demesne woodland of the levelled Baronstown House located 395m to SSW with walled garden 35m to NNE. A red-brick icehouse with brick arched entrance on the N side. Post-1700 icehouse serving Baronstown House which has since been levelled. The ice-house is now located in modern forestry plantation.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 12 June 2017
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Weir - fishunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.