Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Littletown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Littletown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.51366, -7.86072
- SMR number
- WM015-015001-
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 natural rise in gently undulating grassland, with good views in all directions. Ringfort (WM015-020----) 190m to SW. A long narrow depression (L 4.2m; D 0.45m) visible in the E quadrant of a ringfort (WM015-015----) may be the remains of a collapsed souterrain.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 6 September 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.