Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Ballintue, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballintue
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.57036, -7.53062
- SMR number
- WM011-117001-
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 prominent natural rise, surrounded by gently undulating grassland with good views in all directions. A very shallow circular depression (approx. diam. 6.9m) in the centre of a ringfort (WM011-117---) may represent a hut site.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 28 August 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.