Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Walshestown South, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Walshestown South
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.52758, -7.39083
- SMR number
- WM018-120001-
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 slight rise, in gently undulating pasture. Monuments described in 1972 as the remains of nine subrectangular and oval-shaped hut sites within the interior of ringfort (WM018-120----). They abut the interior of the bank from SW-W-N-E-SE and at S. The huts are enclosed by an earth and stone foundation which form slight banks and scarps. One of the hut sites is higher and steeper than the others and may be a later feature. There are no visible traces of masonry. There is a small mound in the SW quadrant.
See attached plan and profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 11 February 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.