Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - indeterminate date
Ballinaspick Or Bishopstown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinaspick Or Bishopstown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.46330, -7.63118
- SMR number
- WM024-140001-
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, rough pasture, with good views in all directions. In the E quadrant of ringfort (WM024-140----) is a small oval-shaped house site (dims. 3m N-S; 2.5m E-W) which adjoins the ringfort bank from NE-E-SE and is defined by a low bank (Wth 1.5m; H 0.3m) from SE-W-N-NE.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.