Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial mound
Brownstown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Brownstown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.65662, -7.11851
- SMR number
- WM008-044----
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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 natural hillock in undulating grass-land, with marshy ground at S & SW side of hillock. Possible moated site (WM008-042----) 100m to NW and possible settlement earthworks of 'Old Brownstown' 100m to W. Depicted as a circular shaped earthwork on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. Depicted as a sub-rectangular shaped earthwork on the 1911 ed. OS 25-inch map (approx. dims. 40m NW-SE x 28m NE-SW). No surface remains visible as the earthwork has been levelled. According to an ASI field report from 1975 the landowner found ‘two human graves side by side’ when bulldozing the site three years previously (1972). Levelled site visible as a cropmark on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 20 April 2017
Nearby in the register
- Settlement clusterunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.