Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - indeterminate date
Kilgawny, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilgawny
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.52795, -7.58978
- SMR number
- WM017-071001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a natural rise, in low-lying wet pasture with marshy hollows in the vicinity. Within a moated site (WM017-071----) are the grass-covered wall footings of a long rectangular house site (dims. 11.50m NNW-SSE; 5m WSW-ENE) with opposing gaps in the ENE and WNW sides, which may represent the remains of doorways. A preservation order was placed on this monument on the 24/04/1987 (SMR File).
See attached plan of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 19 December 2018
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 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.