Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Building
Ushnagh Hill, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ushnagh Hill
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.49049, -7.56382
- SMR number
- WM024-176----
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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
Possible site indicated as 'Ruin' on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map, a letter from Fenwick to Larcom in the OS memoranda states that this ruin is located 'close to fence NW of Trig. Station a small enclosure of stone and lime & is evidently ancient'. Site visited in 1983 and described as 'The site is on the NW shoulder of a ridge on the N side of the hill of Usnagh. There is a scatter of boulders, some quite large and and some bedrock breaking through the field surface. However, these form no definite or clearly definable pattern and there is no trace of a building or of the foundations of a building. A stone field fence from E-W immediately to S of where the 'ruin' is indicated. The site commands a spectacular view to E, N, NW. ' (SMR file 12 July 1983). A small building indicated on the first edition of the OS 6-inch map may be the monument described in the OS memoranda.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revision/upload: 27 April 2010
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.