Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - unclassified
Vilanstown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Vilanstown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.47205, -7.28170
- SMR number
- WM026-075----
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 pasture. Depicted as a small circular-shaped earthwork on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map but not on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map. Possible curving ditch of barrow visible today Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 02 October 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Penal Mass stationunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.