Dr. David McGuinness: Independent Archaeological Researcher 

Preliminary Results from the Prehistoric Burial Mounds of County Westmeath project, 2012-2014

Since its inception in 2012 this County Council-funded and community-based project, run collaboratively with Westmeath Archaeological & Historical Society, has sought to examine the morphology and classification, archaeological context, siting and distribution of the earthen barrows and related monuments of this rich grassland county. Some of these sites are on or close to royal sites documented in medieval Irish vernacular literature, others being referred to in the Táin Bó Cúailgne.