Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial mound
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
- 53.44981, -7.89227
- SMR number
- WM022-041004-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 a small field, on the E shore of Ballaghkeeran Bay in Killinure Lough at SE end of Lough Ree. Possible promontory fort (WM022-041----) lies c. 35m to N. Monument described in 1978 as a low circular mound of earth. According to Mr Olav Johansen, who visited the site, this may represent a Viking burial. This could only be confirmed by further investigation such as geophysics and/or excavation.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 17 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - inlandunder 1 mi
- Pier/Jettyunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.