Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - unclassified
Carricknagower, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carricknagower
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Coordinates
- 53.50336, -7.70448
- SMR number
- WM023-021----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a slight rise, in low-lying, wet pasture. Partially levelled monument described in 1977 as an oval-shaped area (dims. 41m E-W; 31m NNE-SSW) enclosed by a low preserved bank and shallow external fosse. The interior rises slightly toward the centre and there are shallow cultivation ridges running E-W. There is no trace of an entrance. Siting and morphology of earthwork suggests that this is not a ringfort. Wet marshy location may suggest the remains of a possible barrow.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 24 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.