Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Rathmore, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathmore
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.56503, -7.53077
- SMR number
- WM011-116001-
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, overlooked by a high hill to the E, in gently undulating grass-land, with good views to NW & S. In the centre of a ringfort (WM011-116---) are the grass-covered wall footings of a horseshoe-shaped hut site (approx. int. dims. 5.2m N-S) defined by a bank of earth and stones (Wth 2m; H 0.5m) extending in an arc from SE-W-NNE.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 28 August 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.