TreeAlive
‹ Sites and Monuments Record, Ireland

Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland

House - indeterminate date

Derry, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of House - indeterminate date, Derry, County Westmeath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Derry
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Outlined
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.42381, -7.31966
SMR number
WM033-033001-

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Get directions ↗

This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗

The National Monuments Service's description

In marshy land that has since been drained. On a low rise of ground with church (WM033-031----) and graveyard (WM033-031001-) located 310m to W, motte and bailey (WM033-042---) and castle (WM033-043----) located 435m to the SSW. On the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map this monument is hachured as a roughly D-shaped enclosure (WM033-033----) with straight side at W and the outline of a rectangular house c. 20m to SW. On the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map the enclosure is depicted as a semi-circular arc with straight W side and rectangular house site not depicted. To the SW of the D-shaped enclosure are the remains of an earth and stone bank which mark the site of the rectangular house site depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. The D-shaped enclosure and the house site appear to be surrounded by a larger roughly circular-shaped enclosure defined by two scarps with intervening fosse. Small field banks appear to radiate out from the house site and there are traces of cultivation ridges running N-S visible inside the larger enclosure. House site (WM033-033001-) standing inside enclosure (WM033-033----) can be clearly seen on Bing Maps aerial photograph taken between 06-07 November 2011 (www.bing.com/maps/).

See attached word document for aerial photo of house site taken from Bing Maps at www.bing.com/maps

Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien

Date of upload: 25 July 2013

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
All House - indeterminate date in Westmeath All County Westmeath records All Ireland Heritage registers Historical markers (US)National Register of Historic Places (US)
See your own family's places on a living map