Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Porterstown (cooke), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Porterstown (cooke)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.49736, -7.17577
- SMR number
- WM027-014----
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 on a prominent rise, in gently undulating pasture, with good views toward Lionabin. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a small circular-shaped earthwork. Monument described in 1980 as a low profile, roughly D-shaped mound (dims. 20m N-S) enclosed by a fosse and an outer bank and which sits in a saucer like depression. The wide shallow fosse is visible from NNE-E-S-W. The outer bank is low and the exterior ground level slopes gently away from it. The E side of the monument has been disturbed.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 04 November 2019
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.