Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - indeterminate date
Ushnagh Hill, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ushnagh Hill
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.49777, -7.55898
- SMR number
- WM024-027001-
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 terrace, on N-facing slope of a hill, in pasture, with excellent views to W and N. In the S quadrant of the interior of a ringfort (WM024-027----) are the remains of a rectangular-shaped house site (dims. 5m NE-SW; 4m NW-SE) defined by a slight earthen bank (overall Wth 1.4m; Wth at top 0.4m; H 0.25m) with a gap (Wth 3.3m) in the S side, at the SW corner, which may represent a doorway. A low rise or platform is located to N of the house site and a second low rise is visible within the NW-quadrant of the ringfort.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 31 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Rock artunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.