Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Towas, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Towas
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.84843, -6.83937
- SMR number
- ME005-024001-
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 on the crest of an ENE-WSW ridge and inside the NW quadrant of rath (ME005-024----). A depression (L 12m; Wth 4.7m; D 0.5m) extending from the centre of the rath towards the bank at NNW could be a souterrain, although no stone is evident.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 3 September 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.