Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Scurlockstown (delvin By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Scurlockstown (delvin By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.64408, -7.12884
- SMR number
- WM008-064002-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on the E face of a prominent hillock in undulating grassland. Bog 500m to N. Ringfort (WM008-065---) 280m to NE. The low grass covered wall footings (dims. Wth 2.60m; H 0.4m) of a rectangular hut (WM008-064001-) is visible in W quadrant of ringfort (WM008-064----). A slight depression extending E from this house may represent the remains of a souterrain.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 21 April 2017
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.