Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - indeterminate date
Carn (rathconrath By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carn (rathconrath By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.46878, -7.55108
- SMR number
- WM024-126001-
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 slight rise, in gently undulating, rocky pasture. In centre of ringfort (WM024-126----) there is a subrectangular-shaped house site enclosed by an earth and stone bank with possible entrance at E. The remains of two possible house sites adjoin the inner face of the ringfort bank at NNW and SSE.
See attached plan and profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 27 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.