Earthwork in Killahugh, County Westmeath

This remains an important historical record, but the official description says the monument is no longer visible or has been destroyed. The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.

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Situated in undulating pasture, with good views in all directions. No monument depicted at this location on any editions of the OS 6-inch maps. A pencilled note in the SMR file field map for this location refers to ‘complex medieval earthwork[s]’. Levelled earthworks described in 1980 as no surface remains visible. The area has been levelled and the field fence marked on the OS map running NE-SW to S, has been removed. There are a number of narrow bands (approx. Wth 0.75m) of differential growth where there is paler grass than elsewhere running roughly NE-SW across the field. This may represent levelled portions of the earthworks. The levelled earthworks are not visible today on Digital Globe aerial photography.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WM018-104

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