Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - indeterminate date
Ballaghkeeran Little, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballaghkeeran Little
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.45000, -7.89238
- SMR number
- WM022-041001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 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 promontory jutting out into the S end of Ballaghkeeran Bay in Killinure Lough at SE end of Lough Ree. The Breensford River lies c. 90m to S. Monument described in 1976-1981 as located in the SE corner of the interior of a possible promontory fort (WM022-041----) are the sod-covered remains of a square-shaped house foundation. A second house site lies outside, to the immediate NE of the fort (WM022-041----).
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 17 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Burial moundunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - inlandunder 1 mi
- Pier/Jettyunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.