Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Downs, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Downs
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.58630, -7.25281
- SMR number
- WM012-161001-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on the summit of a high ridge in undulating grassland, with commanding views in all directions. The grass covered wall footings of a rectangular house site (approx. dims. 4m N-S x 5m E-W) with an entrance gap (Wth 2m) at E are visible in the centre of a bivallate ringfort (WM012-161----). There is a rectangular structure possibly a room adjoining this at N (approx. dims. 4m NW-SE x 3m E-W), and another adjoining it at S (approx. dims. 4m NW-SE x 2m NE-SW). A second possible hut site (WM012-161002-) is visible along the inside of the bank in NNE quadrant.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 8 March 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.