Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
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
- 53.47424, -7.59759
- SMR number
- WM024-097001-
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 SW facing slope of rising ground, in pasture, with good views to SE, S and W but restricted to N. In E quadrant of ringfort (WM024-097----) are the remains of a subrectangular-shaped house site consisting of a sunken are (dims. 4m NNE-SSW; 3.7m WNW-ESE) defined by a low earth and stone bank (Wth 1m; H 0.4m) with entrance gap at S. One of three hut sites located in centre of ringfort.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 21 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.