Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Pier/Jetty
Ballaghkeeran Little, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballaghkeeran Little
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.45036, -7.89341
- SMR number
- WM022-041003-
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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 the W shoreline of a promontory jutting out into the S end of Ballaghkeeran Bay in Killinure Lough at SE end of Lough Ree. The Breensford River lies c. 50m to S, with possible promontory fort (WM022-041----) immediately to E. Monument described in 1981 as the remains of a possible jetty located on a scarp, which was revealed by a drop in the level of water on the lake. It is composed of four horizontal oak planks jutting out into the lough, bearing sapwood, black in colour and of obvious antiquity. The planks are embedded in a grey-red marl, which is obvious shoreline silt, and lie in a layer (T 0.1m) of charcoal and mixed habitation material.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 17 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Promontory fort - inlandunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Burial moundunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.