Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - indeterminate date
Ballinive, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinive
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.47830, -7.59802
- SMR number
- WM024-094001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a prominent rise, in pasture, with good views in all directions. In NE quadrant of ringfort (WM024-094----) are the remains of a small rectangular-shaped house site (dims. 5m NNW-SSE; 3.6m ENE-WSW) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 1.3m; H 0.7m) is WITH entrance (Wth 1.3m) at SSE. A low bank of earth and stone extends from the hut site to the ringfort bank at NE.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 21 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.