Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Princetown, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Princetown
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.59426, -6.39719
- SMR number
- ME033-051----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Described and mapped in the Schools Manuscript Collection(1938). When workmen were digging 'they came across some flags which when removed revealed an underground chamber with passage connecting it to the surface' (pers. comm. Mr Colin Byrne, Briarleas, county Meath). See this web-page accessed on 18/08/2017: https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/5008902/4965375
Compiled by Geraldine Stout
Date of revised upload: 18/08/2017
Nearby in the register
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.