Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - bowl-barrow
Southhill, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Southhill
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.61034, -7.06604
- SMR number
- WM014-007----
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 on N face of a low gravel ridge which runs N-S, with extensive views. The road which marks the boundary with Mitchelstown townland lies 20m to NE. A flat-topped, steep sided mound of earth and stone (top diam. 9m NW-SE; 12m NE-SW) enclosed by a shallow fosse and external bank. The bank and fosse have been levelled at N and W. There is a low causeway across the fosse at S. Classification of this monument is uncertain and it has been suggested that the mound could represent the remains of a small Anglo-Norman motte castle (ASI Report 22/02/1980).
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 27 August 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - stepped barrowunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.