Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Killarechurch, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killarechurch
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.48153, -7.57826
- SMR number
- WM024-055001-
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 the top of a gravel ridge, in pasture, with excellent views to N and SSE. Within ringfort (WM024-055----) and adjoining the NE side are the remains of a roughly oval-shaped house site. This is defined by a low, fragmentary earth and stone bank with the remains of stone facing which extends (L c. 4m) from the bank of the ringfort at NE and NW.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 12 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.