Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - indeterminate date
Davidstown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Davidstown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.55012, -7.53450
- SMR number
- WM018-030001-
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 gentle rise, in undulating pasture, with good views in all directions. Within W quadrant of ringfort (WM018-030----) are the remains of a roughly rectangular-shaped house site (dims. 5.8m ESE-WNW; 4.5m NNE-SSW) defined by a low (H 0.35m) grass-covered earth and stone bank (top Wth 1.8m; base Wth 2.1m) with entrance gap at WNW. A low, straight scarp runs NW-SE from the SE corner.
See attached sketch plan of monument by the ASI.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 11 January 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.