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Barrow - unclassified

Barrettstown, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - unclassified, Barrettstown, 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
Barrettstown
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.47955, -7.46421
SMR number
WM025-060----

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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 hillock, in pasture. A stream lies c. 32m to SW. Annotated 'Fort' on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map. Levelled monument described in 1971 as no surface remains visible. A complex of banks, scarps and quarry depressions are visible across this area and do not appear to form any discernible pattern. There are natural water-formed scarps at the base of the hillock. The monument is visible today as a roughly circular-shaped cropmark on OSI aerial photographs and as a semicircular-shaped earthwork defined by a fosse and outer bank on Digital Globe aerial photography. The morphology of the monument visible on Digital Globe aerial photography suggests that this may be the remains of a barrow rather than a ringfort.

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

Date of upload: 11 September 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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