Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - mound barrow
Glenidan, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glenidan
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.66804, -7.16577
- SMR number
- WM008-012----
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 slight rise of ground in gently undulating wet pasture-land. Ringfort (WM008-013---) 75m to NE. Monument covered in scrub vegetation making detailed examination difficult. Present remains consists of a circular shaped concave area (diam. 5.4m) enclosed by a well preserved earthen bank (Wth 3.6m; H 0.6m int.; max. H ext. 1.5m). The original profile of the monument is uncertain. This monument may originally have been a mound possibly a bowl-barrow which has been mutilated by partially quarrying out the centre of the mound with the upcast soil creating the present profile of the monument.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 18 April 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.