Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - mound barrow
Gortmore, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortmore
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.51079, -7.73626
- SMR number
- WM016-033----
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 level pasture with possible mound barrow (WM016-032----) 120m to NE. Dungolman River 320m to E. Possible barrow identified as a circular vegetation mark different in colour from the rest of the field and consisting of a low circular shaped mound (diam. 8m E-W; 7m N-S; H c. 0.7m) of earth and stone with no external fosse. The antiquity of this feature is uncertain.
Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 20 July 2015
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.