Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Balsaw, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Balsaw
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.73172, -6.70753
- SMR number
- ME018-006----
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
Located towards the bottom of a gentle NW-facing slope. An underground chamber was discovered c. 1955 in a field known as the ‘Blue Field’ (NMI file) but it was closed up before it could be recorded (Kelly 1977, 62). Archaeological testing (19E0476) by P. D. Sweetman c. 30m to the SW at the closest point produced no related material (excavations.ie 2019:767).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Amended: 24 March 2023
Kelly, E. P. 1977 A Souterrain at Clongill, Co. Meath. Ríocht na Mídhe, 6, 3, 62-4.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosure1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.