Barrow - mound barrow

The National Monuments Service's description

Surveyed in 2013 and described by McGuinness (2014, 53) as following: 'Monument comprises a small, roughly circular but poorly defined mound (Diam. 5.9m N-S x 5.4m E-W) up to 0.51m in height on W and SE sides, which appears to have been shaped from the summit of a prominent conical knoll that reaches up to 2m in height below mound on N side. Mound has been hollowed out in the centre (2.5m N-S x 2m E-W) as if ransacked by treasure-hunters. Knoll appears to be a kame with kettle-hole lake close by in same field to SW; its NE side, adjacent to modern field fence, has been severely damaged or shorn off. The ASI fieldworker who visited the site in 1983 thought the knoll had been scarped and shaped, but this does not seem obvious to the writer except for the damaged NE side. Monument is currently located in pastureland but surrounding field is full of old cultivation-ridges or lazy-beds. The monument is marked Crockaphuca (‘Hill of the Pooka’) on OS 6” map'.

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by David McGuinness.

Date of upload: 23 February 2015

References

McGuinness, D. 2014 The prehistoric burial mounds and related monuments of County Westmeath. Part II - Monuments in central Westmeath (Barony of Rathconrath and parts of baronies of Moygoish, Moycashel, and Moyashel & Magheradernon). Unpublished survey funded by Westmeath County Council in association with Westmeath Archaeological and Historical Society.