Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - mound barrow
Ballynacroghy Or Gallowstown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynacroghy Or Gallowstown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.59649, -7.51058
- SMR number
- WM011-046----
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 midway along the top of a low natural ridge running NNE-SSW in low lying marshy pasture. Ringfort (WM011-045----) located 30m to W. Possible partially natural glacial hillock that has been scarped or modified to produce a roughly oval-shaped round-topped mound (diam. 20m) of earth and stones with no visible trace of an external fosse. Partial damage to mound at ENE possibly the result of quarrying which has produced a steep scarp running N-S with some large flag stones visible (SMR Files 17/10/1972; 28/08/1973).
See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 17 July 2015
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Sweathouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.