Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Paddinstown Lower, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Paddinstown Lower
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.56803, -7.58237
- SMR number
- WM010-027001-
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 a slight rise with evidence of rock outcrop in gently undulating grassland. An L shaped depression visible in the interior of a ringfort (WM010-027---) probably represents a collapsed souterrain.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 9 June 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.