Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch barrow
Hyde Park, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Hyde Park
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.49759, -7.10721
- SMR number
- WM027-029----
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 low lying pasture, with views restricted by the surrounding landscape. Depicted on the 1913 ed. OS 6-inch map as an oval-shaped earthwork. Monument described in 1971 and 1976 as a raised roughly oval-shaped area (dims. 23.4m N-S; 17m E-W) defined by a scarp and external fosse. The scarp is very slight as is the fosse (Wth at top 4.4m). The interior is flat and no features are discernible. There is a very slight depression running NE-SW across the monument. Levelled monument visible today as an oval-shaped cropmark on Digital Globe aerial photography.
See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 06 November 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Castle - ringworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.