Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Bunown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bunown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.47012, -7.88690
- SMR number
- WM022-031002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 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 on rising ground overlooking Killinure Bay to the W. To the S of Bunown church (WM022-031001-) and graveyard (WM022-031003-) there is a sub-rectangular shaped platform bounded by a low earthen bank set on a scarp, with a second sub-rectangular banked enclosure to the SSE. Extending outwards from this and from the graveyard and reaching to the lake shore on the SE, SW and NW area is an extensive series of banks forming irregular enclosures and small fields of unknown antiquity. The earthworks may represent a field system which pre-dates the graveyard wall as one of the banks runs beneath the wall which was probably constructed in the 19th century.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 21 December 2017
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.