Building in Ushnagh Hill, County Westmeath

This remains an important historical record, but the official description says the monument is no longer visible or has been destroyed. The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.

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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.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WM024-176

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