Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - mound barrow
Rathcaled, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathcaled
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.57599, -7.60029
- SMR number
- WM010-022----
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 in low-lying wet grassland. Annotated as ‘Bull Ring’ on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map. A small sub-rectangular shaped platform (diam. 9m N-S; 8.1m E-W) defined by a low earthen bank (Wth 0.5m; H 0.25m) and narrow shallow external fosse (Wth 0.3m). At the centre of the interior is a mound of earth and stone (diam. 3.5m N-S; 2.7m E-W) with a fallen, grass-covered stone resting on it (WM010-022001-).
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 9 June 2017
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.