Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Petitswood, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Petitswood
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.53024, -7.31493
- SMR number
- WM019-061----
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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 in level arable land, on the townland boundary with Springfield or Spittlefield. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a very small oval-shaped earthwork (approx. dims. 12.5m NW-SE; 9.5m NE-SW) possibly a mound the base of which is intersected at SW by townland boundary running NW-SE. Annotated 'Moat' on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map. Levelled monument described in 1970 as no surface remains visible. Monument is not visible on Digital Globe aerial photography and the area is now occupied by a housing estate. Prior to this housing development the area was archaeologically tested by Christopher Read under licence No. 02E1301 and nothing of archaeological significance was uncovered.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 04 June 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.