Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - unclassified
Killua, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killua
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Labyrinth
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.65457, -7.00073
- SMR number
- WM009-056----
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).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Situated in demesne lands on the post-1700 Deerpark of Killua Castle located 570m to NNE. Ringfort (WM009-010----) 90m to N, two landscape features (WM009-009-/011----) located 160m to NNE. One of seven small circular-shaped earthworks (WM009-050-/051-/052-/053-/054-/055-/056-) roughly on a line running E-W that are visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. Could be a group of prehistoric barrows later reused as landscape features. Alternatively the earthworks could be solely associated with post-1700 landscaping of the Deerpark belonging to Killua Castle. This area was once planted with tree groves with an old pathway running through the deerpark as depicted on the first ed. OS 6-inch map. A post-1700 ‘Monument’ has been erected on the demesne approx. 270m to the NNE. The ‘Old Deer Park’ of Killua Castle is located 650m to the S as depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Emmet Byrnes, Senior Archaeologist, Forest Service Inspectorate, Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Date of upload: 3 May 2018
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.