Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Ballykeeran, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballykeeran
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.44758, -7.89589
- SMR number
- WM029-003----
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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 the edge of a ridge or rise, in woodland, overlooking Ballaghkeeran Lough to N. Depicted on the 1837 OS 6-inch map as circular-shaped tree-lined earthwork and on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a subtriangular-shaped earthwork which seems to have been incorporated into a ‘Gravel Pit’ to N.
Monument described in 1973 as a large roughly rectangular-shaped area now densely overgrown with impenetrable vegetation and largely inaccessible. The earthwork is defined by a very high steep scarp along the N side, which has been quarried. This quarry extends across most of the E half. The monument is defined by a steep bank to SE and W. There are the remains of an outer fosse along the SE side, beyond which is a field boundary consisting of a hedge-lined bank. Monument is visible today as a small coppice of woodland on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 06 November 2019
Nearby in the register
- Burial moundunder 1 mi
- Pier/Jettyunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - inlandunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.