Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - unclassified
Cregganmacar, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cregganmacar
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Partially outlined
- Coordinates
- 53.38680, -7.74501
- SMR number
- WM036-048----
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 flat poorly drained land with drainage channels traversing the field. Outline of circular shaped area (approx. int. diam. 40m; overall ext. diam. 60m) defined by a fosse, earthen bank and external fosse visible on Digital Globe aerial imagery. The W quadrant of the monument has been intersected by a post-1700 field boundary running N-S. Earlier OSI aerial photography shows the outline of this monument to the W of the field boundary. The poorly drained land suggests that this may be the remains of a possible barrow although due to the large size of the monument it could be the remains of a ringfort of a raised platform nature.
See attached image from Google Earth taken 02/04/2013
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Eoghan Doyle
Date of upload: 11 March 2019
Nearby in the register
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.