Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - indeterminate date
Grangegeeth, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grangegeeth
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.58699, -7.43672
- SMR number
- WM011-098001-
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 low ridge running NE-SW with good views of surrounding grassland. Piercefield Castle (WM011-097----) 540m to W, Mullenoran bridge 1km to NNW. The road which marks the townland boundary with Piercefield or Templeoran is 100m to W. A long rectangular building or house (dims. 19.5m NE-SW; 5.15m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2m; H 0.45m), with an internal division and a door (Wth 2m) at NE occupies most of the interior of a moated site (WM011-098----).
See attached plan of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 25 August 2017
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - fortified houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.