Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - indeterminate date
Knockaville, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockaville
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.48291, -7.25245
- SMR number
- WM026-046001-
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 at the W end of a low ridge running E-W, in undulating rough pasture. In the W quadrant of ringfort (WM026-046----) is a roughly rectangular-shaped house site (dims. 4m NW-SE; 2.8m NE-SW). It comprises of a low platform with a slight depression in the middle which is defined by a much defaced earthen bank (H 0.4m; overall Wth 2.6m) around its upper edge.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 02 October 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.