Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Corkan, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corkan
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.54200, -7.55639
- SMR number
- WM017-113----
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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 in the centre of a rough pasture field. A possible standing stone (WM017-114----) lies c. 70m to NW. Not depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map or the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map. Described by the Forest Service in 2006 as a sub-rectangular shaped area (approx. overall dims. 8.5m NNE-SSW x 8m WNW-ESE) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (H 0.7m). The bank is retained in places on the interior by large flags and boulders. An entrance is located on the N side. Monument is visible as a roughly circular-shaped area of differential growth located within the exclusion zone of a forestry plantation, as seen on Digital Globe aerial photography.
See attached sketch plan of the hut site submitted by the Forest Service.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 10 January 2019
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 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.