County: Westmeath Site name: Aghanashanamore, Co. Westmeath
Sites and Monuments Record No.: WM030-034 Licence number: —
Author: —
Site type: Graves ofindeterminate date
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 614472m, N 742262m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.430263, -7.782222
In July 1957 human remains were discovered during construction work for the rural electrical scheme at Aghanashanamore, near Mount Temple, Co. Westmeath.271 The site of discovery was close to a circular enclosure, which the ESB took to be a ringfort. The site is not marked on the Ordnance Survey sheet but, according to measurements received, measured 8m in overall diameter. Two or three skeletons were discovered at a depth of 0.3–0.45m below ground level. The disposition of the remains is not known, but it was reported that the bones were those of ‘young men’ and the teeth were in good condition. Work was stopped in the area pending an examination. The site was not investigated by NMI personnel and the remains were not acquired. The SMR records one site only, a ringfort, in the townland of Aghanashanamore,272 but the sketch section provided with some notes on the site by Mr Bart Bambury273 of the ESB to Marcus Ó hEochaidhe, National Monuments Service, taken together with the maximum diameter of the site, 8m, suggests that this was a mound barrow and not a ringfort.
271. Parish of Ballyloughloe, barony of Clonlonan. OS 25in. sheet 30, according to measurements received, 15.2cm from the top margin and 16.2cm from the left margin.
272. WM030-034——. IGR 214525 242237.
273. Brother of Jim Bambury, the OPW photographer of the period.
