What is recorded here

Barrow is a barrow (mound barrow) in Glenidan, County Westmeath, Ireland. The site sits on a slight rise in wet pasture, where scrub vegetation makes detailed examination difficult. Its present remains form a circular concave area with a diameter of 5.4 metres, enclosed by a well-preserved earthen bank that is 3.6 metres wide. The bank has an internal height of 0.6 metres and a maximum external height of 1.5 metres, while a ringfort lies 75 metres to the northeast.

Situated on a slight rise of ground in gently undulating wet pasture-land. Ringfort (WM008-013---) 75m to NE. Monument covered in scrub vegetation making detailed examination difficult. Present remains consists of a circular shaped concave area (diam. 5.4m) enclosed by a well preserved earthen bank (Wth 3.6m; H 0.6m int.; max. H ext. 1.5m). The original profile of the monument is uncertain. This monument may originally have been a mound possibly a bowl-barrow which has been mutilated by partially quarrying out the centre of the mound with the upcast soil creating the present profile of the monument. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 18 April 2017

Mound barrow, likely dating to the Early Bronze Age. Its location near a ringfort suggests possible ceremonial or funerary significance in a prehistoric landscape.

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