Burial mound

The National Monuments Service's description

Monument surveyed in 2015 and described by McGuinness (2015, 54-5) as following: ‘This and a second barrow (WM020-028----) close by to S, both marked as circular mounds on OS maps, have been destroyed, leaving few traces on the ground. The site was examined by an ASI fieldworker on 11/3/72: Mounds 3 [the present site] and 4 [WM020-028----]. The two mounds marked on the current 6-inch OS map are completely demolished and have left no recognisable trace on the ground. There is a wide scatter of small stones at and around the sites. Mound 3 [was] situated on a natural rise of average pasture. Good views in all directions from the site mound 4 was on the S. slope of the same rise and again its site is marked by a wide circular scatter of small stones. [SMR file] According to the same source, this monument is depicted as ‘a small circular earthwork marked Moat’ on OS Fair Plan from 1830s. This monument and WM020-028----formed part of a cemetery of five barrows spread over three townlands on either side of a stream; they lay on a rise to S of stream, WM020-028---- being on the S slope of the rise facing both the stream and, across it c. 200m to S, a third mound-barrow (WM020-026----) strikingly positioned on a prominent hilltop in Cooksborough townland; also in Cooksborough townland and in the adjoining townland of Cloghanumera, but low down in the stream valley, are two ring-barrows (WM020-142----; WM020-144----)’.

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

Date of upload: 9 February 2016

References

McGuinness, D. 2015 The prehistoric burial mounds and related monument of County Westmeath. Part III - Monuments in Northern and Eastern Westmeath (Baronies of Delvin and Fore, and Parts of Baronies of Farbill, Fartullagh, Moygoish, and Moyashel & Magheradernon). Unpublished survey funded by Westmeath County Council in association with Westmeath Archaeological and Historical Society.