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Barrow - mound barrow

Ballynamuddagh, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - mound barrow, Ballynamuddagh, County Westmeath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballynamuddagh
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.37400, -7.73006
SMR number
WM036-034----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on low hillock with good views of the surrounding countryside, higher ground to W and SW. Ballynamuddagh House 170m to SSE. Small sub-rectangular shaped flat-topped steep-sided mound (top diam. 4m; base diam. 10m; H 2m) of earth and stones with no visible trace of an enclosing fosse or external bank. A livestock track runs across the top of the mound from NW to NE.

Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien

Date of upload: 20 July 2015

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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