Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Milltown (rathconrath By., Ballymore Ed), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Milltown (rathconrath By., Ballymore Ed)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.49080, -7.69423
- SMR number
- WM023-085----
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
In rough pasture on the edge of low-lying poorly drained land which is depicted as a pond on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. Low grass covered mound (H 0.2m; diam. c. 10m) of burnt stone and charcoal the core of which was exposed in the S face of a drain by the landowner when deepening a field drain that runs E-W across this wet partially reclaimed land.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 22 August 2014
Nearby in the register
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Water mill - vertical-wheeledunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Military campunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.