Barrow - bowl-barrow

The National Monuments Service's description

Surveyed in 2013 and described by McGuinness (2014, 44) as following: 'This site of this monument now comprises a jumble of boulders on a small patch of rough ground, perhaps field clearance (see ASI description below), and it appears to have been destroyed or greatly altered since two ASI fieldworkers visited it in 1983 and 1984 and identified it as a barrow. The 1984 description: This site comprises an artificial mound, roughly oval in shape; the northern end of which is obscured by bushes and a tree with some rose bushes scattered on it. The mound reaches a maximum height of 1 metre on the west and slopes gradually towards the east. It is 4 metres E-W by 8m N-S. There is a faint suggestion of a ditch on the S, SSW & W. Some large stones protrude up from the mound on the E & N. Situated on a slight rise in a level field in undulating pasture land. It is probably a small barrow. [SMR file] If the possible ditch—observed by both fieldworkers—were genuine, the monument could be identified as a small bowl-barrow; otherwise it was presumably a mound barrow'.

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 Unpublished survey funded by Westmeath County Council in association with Westmeath Archaeological and Historical Society.