Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Drumgill (morgallion By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumgill (morgallion By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.91017, -6.77637
- SMR number
- ME002-002001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated at the summit of a hill and at the SW edge of a deciduous wood. Inside the inner bank of rath (ME002-002----) at NW is a depression (dims 6m NNE-SSW; c. 1.5m E-W; D c. 0.8m) with a spur (dims 5.5m WNW-ESE; c. 1.5m N-S) off the S end which might be a souterrain although no stone is evident.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 31 August 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.