Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - indeterminate date
Crissaun, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Crissaun
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.48459, -7.51402
- SMR number
- WM025-043001-
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 low rise, in gently undulating and hilly pasture, with extensive views to SSE. In the centre of ringfort (WM025-043----) is a slight subcircular-shaped depression (approx. diam. 5.4m) which may be the remains of a house site. A slight gap (approx. 1m) at E may represent the entrance.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 05 September 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.