Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Ballysallagh (fox), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballysallagh (fox)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.58209, -7.52473
- SMR number
- WM011-080----
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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 low rise of ground in grassland, in field annotated as 'Mullagharolla' on 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map and annotated as a ‘Cave’. The Ordnance Survey Field Name Books (No. 31, 6) of 1837 recorded that 'there are 2 caves (WM011-151----) in this td. but they are in no way remarkable. No surface remains visible of any 'cave' or any possible souterrain in area marked on OS 6-inch map. Probably the remains of a natural cave rather than a souterrain.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 24 August 2017
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.