Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - indeterminate date
Knockaville, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockaville
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.48185, -7.25775
- SMR number
- WM026-045001-
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 prominent hillock, in gently undulating pasture. In the centre of ring barrow (WM026-045----) is a small rectangular-shaped house (dims. 3.5m E-W; 3.2m N-S) site enclosed by a bank (Wth 1.8m; H 0.3m) with a gap (Wth 0.9m) in the E and W ends.
See attached plan and profile of the monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 02 October 2019
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.