- Source: Wattstown Barrows
Wattstown Barrows are two tumuli (barrows) which form a National Monument in County Westmeath, Ireland.
Location
Wattstown Barrows are located near the summit of Frewin Hill (173 m / 568 ft high), overlooking Lough Owel to the east.
Description
Wattstown Barrows are a ring barrow and bowl barrow, burial sites of the Bronze Age, joined together by extending a bank and ditch from the ring barrow in an arc around the bowl barrow. There is also another bowl barrow and a tumulus or cairn.
According to legend, Frewin Hill was the site of the Battle of Frémainn in AD 507, where Failge Berraide defeated Fiachu mac Néill.
References
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- Wattstown Barrows
- Wattstown, County Westmeath
- List of national monuments in County Westmeath
- List of national monuments in Leinster
- List of disasters in Great Britain and Ireland by death toll
- 1905
- Rhondda Tramways Company
- 1926–27 Port Vale F.C. season
