Barrow - bowl-barrow

The National Monuments Service's description

A barrow-cemetery consisting of seven barrows (WM007-014/016/017/018/015/015001-), six of the barrows are still visible with no surface remains visible of the seventh barrow. Monument surveyed in 2015 and described by McGuinness (2015, 59) as following: ‘Monument comprises a domed or inverted-bowl-shaped mound (Diam. 12.4m N-S x 11.7m E-W) with flattened summit, surrounded by a broad, flat-based circular ditch (Overall diam. 17.9m N-S x 16.7m E-W), now mostly silted up. At NNW, where best preserved, ditch drops 1.80m below summit of mound and 0.13m below external ground level; its range of width measurements is fairly tight: 2.80m (N), 2.8m (E), 2.70m (S), 2.2m (W). Where mound has been poached or otherwise eroded on SE side, it can be seen to comprise very stony soil’.

This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 2/1979).

See attached drone photograph courtesy of and © Peter Nagy

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by David McGuinness.

Revised by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of revised upload: 25 January 2023

References

McGuinness, D. 2015 The prehistoric burial mounds and related monument of County Westmeath. Part III - Monuments in Northern and Eastern Westmeath (Baronies of Delvin and Fore, and Parts of Baronies of Farbill, Fartullagh, Moygoish, and Moyashel & Magheradernon). Unpublished survey funded by Westmeath County Council in association with Westmeath Archaeological and Historical Society.

ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).