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Barrow - mound barrow

Gortmore, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - mound barrow, Gortmore, County Westmeath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Gortmore
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.51104, -7.73510
SMR number
WM016-032----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated in a slight dip in the ground in level pasture with Dungolman River 240m to E. Possible mound barrow (WM016-033----) 120m to SW. Possible barrow site identified as a circular vegetation mark different in colour from the rest of the field and consisting of a low mound or natural rock outcrop (diam. 6m E-W; 4.5m N-S; H 0.3m) with no evidence of an external fosse. The antiquity and classification of this feature is uncertain.

Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien

Date of upload: 20 July 2015

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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