Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Tristernagh Demesne, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tristernagh Demesne
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.60301, -7.47572
- SMR number
- WM011-173----
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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
A small mound or low cairn was annotated on a sketch map in the files of the National Museum archives in the townland of Tristernagh Demesne (pers. comm. Maeve Sikora NMI 28/07/2023). This feature may have been a low cairn or mound which stood on or close to Tristernagh Island on Lough Iron which has since been drained and the land reclaimed. Possible small mound or circular tree-covered feature similar to a crannog is visible on Google Earth orthoimages. On the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map Tristernagh Island is shown standing at the S end of Lough Iron, 120m E of the shoreline of Tristernagh Demesne. Tristernagh monastery (WM011-053----) lies 450m to the SW of Tristernagh Island.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Maeve Sikora, Keeper of Irish Antiquities,
National Museum of Ireland
Date of upload: 28 July 2023
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