Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - indeterminate date
Balgarrett, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Balgarrett
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.53689, -7.50266
- SMR number
- WM018-060001-
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 a natural hillock, in good pasture. In centre of ringfort (WM018-060----) are the remains of two rectangular-shaped house sites defined by earth and stone banks. The southern-most house site (dims. 12m N-S; 8m E-W) is slightly larger, whilst the second house site (dims. 11m E-W; 8m N-S) is situated perpendicular and is slightly smaller. These are described in 1977 as forming part of a ‘large stone built complex of houses which are linked together and running NW-SE which suggests there were more than two. There are indications of internal divisions within some of the house sites. House sites are clearly visible on Digital Globe aerial photography. Cultivation ridges running roughly E-S are clearly visible in field immediately to S and W.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 04 February 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.