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
- 53.57938, -7.52414
- SMR number
- WM011-151----
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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
The OS Fair Plan map of 1837 has a 'cave' marked on this map to the S of the road running from Ballyncarrigy to Mullingar in a field annotated as 'Parkatilling' on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map (SMR file). This 'cave' may have been the site of a souterrain. The site of this possible souterrain was described in 1983 as 'No visible remains. A house has been built very close to the site' (SMR file 1983). The Ordnance Survey Field Name Books (No. 31, 6) of 1837 recorded that 'there are 2 caves (WM011-080----) in this td. but they are in no way remarkable'. Probably the remains of a natural cave rather than a souterrain.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 4 October 2010
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.