Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - indeterminate date
Rickardstown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rickardstown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.61049, -7.20129
- SMR number
- WM013-008001-
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 the upper SW facing slope of a high ridge in undulating grassland, with good views from SE-W. Levelled monument barely visible as a cropmark on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. Upstanding monument described in 1976 as the outline of a rectangular house site (approx. dims. 5.6m NW-SE x 3.55m NE-SW) defined by a low wide earthen bank (Wth 4.75m; H 0.35m), open on its SE side, is visible in the centre of a ringfort (WM013-008---).
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 3 April 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.