Structure in Knightswood, County Westmeath

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What is recorded here

No surface remains visible of levelled cairn on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. Levelled monument, possibly a building was situated on reclaimed grassland 200m SW of River Gaine and 100m S of levelled mound (WM012-031-----). Monument described in 1972 as situated on low lying undulating field in grass-land. A large irregular shaped grass-covered mound of small stones, some of which have traces of mortar adhering to them which may suggest that the mound represented the site of a levelled building.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WM012-032

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Photo credits

Maker not stated on source page, commons.wikimedia.org
Maker not stated on source page, letsgowiththechildren.co.uk
National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Maker not stated on source page, uk.pinterest.com
Kath O’Grady Reilly and John McCauley credited collectively for the article photographs; this frame is not individually attributed, www.westmeathexaminer.ie

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