Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - indeterminate date
Killahugh, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killahugh
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.52279, -7.52224
- SMR number
- WM018-105001-
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 slight rise, in gently undulating pasture, with good views in all directions. Monument described in 1970 as in centre of ringfort (WM018-105----) there is a rectangular-shaped house site (dims. 8m N-S; 4.9m E-W) enclosed by a bank (basal Wth 1.7m; Wth at top 1m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 0.8m) of earth and stone with the remains of internal stone facing. The entrance is not visible and may have been on the S side, which has been demolished by quarrying. Ringfort and house site have been levelled and the monument is not visible today on Digital Globe aerial photography.
See sketch plan of monument in SMR file which has been drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 08 February 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.