Barrow - mound barrow

The National Monuments Service's description

Surveyed in 2013 and described by McGuinness (2014, 29) as following: 'Low circular mound (Diam. 3.10m N-S x 3.10m E-W) with well-defined edge and slightly domed to flattish upper surface, rising up to 0.30m above ground level on N side. Limestone boulders protrude from upper surface of mound, suggesting that there may be cairn, perhaps a cist, beneath the sod; a boulder protruding from NW edge of mound, apparently on edge, could be a kerbstone. Monument is sited in pasture on summit of hill with panoramic views: the Slieve Blooms dominate view to S; Knockastia, capped by a multiple-cist cairn (WM031-015----), and Croghan Hill in Offaly, with a tumulus (OF010-004001-) on its summit, are prominent to NW and E respectively; also visible c. 800m to W is Bonfire Hill (Fitzpatrick 2005, 273)'.

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by David McGuinness.

Date of upload: 23 February 2015

References

McGuinness, D. 2012 The prehistoric burial mounds and related monument of County Westmeath. Part I - Preliminary account of the monuments in the Lough Owel Area (Barony of Corkaree and part of Barony of Moyashel & Magheradernon). Unpublished survey funded by Westmeath County Council in association with Westmeath Archaeological and Historical Society.

Fitzpatrick, E. 2005 The landscape of Máel Sechnaill's rígdál at Ráith Áeda, AD 859. In C. Corlett and T. Condit (eds.), Above and beyond, essays in commemoration of Leo Swan, 267-80. Bray. Wordwell.