Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Rathcaled, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathcaled
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.57578, -7.59024
- SMR number
- WM010-023001-
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 top of a small gently rising hill, surrounded by gently undulating grassland, with excellent views in all directions. The Irishtown River which marks the boundary with Paddinstown Lower is 140m to S. A wide shallow depression (dims. 14.7m ENE-WSW; Wth 2.5m; D 1m) aligned ENE-WSW with a shorter depression (dims. 9m NNE-SSW; Wth 2.3m; D 1m), appear to represent the remains of a collapsed souterrain in the W quadrant of a ringfort (WM010-023---).
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 9 June 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.