Barrow - ring-barrow

The National Monuments Service's description

Surveyed in 2013 and described by McGuinness (2014, 38) as following: 'Circular earthwork (Diam. 33.5 N-S x 33.5m E-W) comprising a low circular mound or platform (Diam. 19.2m N-S x 19.2m E-W) surrounded by a ditch and external bank, located on the top of a natural knoll which appears to have been shaped into the monument; in undulating pastureland with other low knolls nearby. Bank is fairly well preserved except for parts of N side, with a breach (?entrance) 5.1m in width on NE side, and rises up to 0.58m above ditch where highest in S part of monument, and up to 1.13m above external ground level at SE; its width reaches up to 3.7m on W side. Highest part of interior mound or platform is on NE side, which may comprise a small, poorly defined but roughly circular mound 6m in diameter and 0.42m in height; this rises up to 1.45m above the ditch. Ditch is up to 3.4m in width; its base is higher than ground level outside the bank, giving a kind of stepped profile with the central mound or platform noticeably higher than ground level surrounding the monument. A tiny mound (WM018-083----) lies on a low knoll 135m to SW of ring-barrow. Frewin Hill is prominent on horizon to NNE'.

See attached plan of barrow surveyed and drawn by ASI

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 Unpublished survey funded by Westmeath County Council in association with Westmeath Archaeological and Historical Society.