Wattstown Barrows
{{Short description|Bronze Age burial sites in Westmeath, Ireland}}
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| native_name =Dumhaí Bhaile Bhatt
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| location =Wattstown, Portloman,
County Westmeath, Ireland
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| type = tumuli
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| built = c. 3000–2000 BC
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| designation2 = National Monument of Ireland
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Wattstown Barrows are two tumuli (barrows) which form a National Monument in County Westmeath, Ireland.{{cite web | url=https://www.archaeology.ie/sites/default/files/media/pdf/monuments-in-state-care-westmeath.pdf | title=National Monuments in State Care: Ownership & Guardianship | publisher=National Monuments Service | date=4 March 2009}}
Location
Wattstown Barrows are located near the summit of Frewin Hill (173 m / 568 ft high), overlooking Lough Owel to the east.{{cite web|url=https://www.archaeology.ie/sites/default/files/media/pdf/Archaeology-RMP-Westmeath-Manual-(1997)-0052.pdf |title=Westmeath-Manual |publisher=www.archaeology.ie |date=1997 |accessdate=2021-06-07}}
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.{{cite web|url=https://www.offalyhistory.com/reading-resources/archaeology/ancient-monuments-of-the-midlands|title=Ancient Monuments of the Midlands - Offaly History|date=1 September 2007|publisher=}}
According to legend, Frewin Hill was the site of the Battle of Frémainn in AD 507, where Failge Berraide defeated Fiachu mac Néill.{{cite web|url=http://www.advertiser.ie/mullingar/article/70903/tree-mast-awaits-second-reprieve-in-october|title=‘Tree’ mast awaits second reprieve in October|publisher=www.advertiser.ie}}