Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Coolvuck Upper, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolvuck Upper
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.44616, -7.82848
- SMR number
- WM030-001----
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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 slight rise in undulating poorly drained pasture with good views of surrounding countryside. A large roughly circular area (overall diam. c. 75m E-W; int. diam. c. 30m E-W) delimited by a wide shallow flat-bottomed fosse with a substantial earth and stone bank well preserved from S-W-N-NE but elsewhere it is lower in height and has been defaced in places. There is a modern gap in bank at NE and some old quarry holes at WNW and WSW. The interior of the monument along with the enclosing fosse is traversed by old cultivation ridges running N-S. Most of the interior of the monument has been disturbed by these cultivation ridges. An old ESB pole has been placed on top of the bank at NE. It has been suggested that this monument may be the remains of a possible henge due to the large diameter of the monument or may be an example of a large ring-barrow (SMR File 29/03/1973).
Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 20 July 2015
Nearby in the register
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.