Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - indeterminate date
Clonickilvant, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonickilvant
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.53755, -7.18542
- SMR number
- WM020-041001-
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, with good views in all directions. Described in 1970 as in the centre of a levelled ringfort (WM020-041----) are the remains of a roughly rectangular-shaped house (int. Wth 4.5m) enclosed by a low bank (Wth 2m; H 0.45m) of earth and a large stones which best define the E end of the house, no visible remains of W end. No trace of this house site visible today on Digital Globe aerial photograph.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 04 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.