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Burial mound

Baskin Low, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Burial mound, Baskin Low, County Westmeath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Baskin Low
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.48854, -7.73488
SMR number
WM023-041----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 low rise, in gently undulating pasture. Depicted as a small mound on the revised ed. OS 6-inch map. Levelled monument described in 1971 as a circular-shaped area (diam. 11.3m E-W; 9.8m N-S) defined by a light coloured band of vegetation visible as a cropmark. The interior has a very slight E-facing slope. Levelled monument is not visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs. Possible site of levelled burial mound based on OS map designation.

Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.

Date of upload: 24 July 2019

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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