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Souterrain

Skeagh More, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Souterrain, Skeagh More, County Westmeath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Skeagh More
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Cave, Hachured
Coordinates
53.53845, -7.57385
SMR number
WM017-047----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on a small natural ridge, overlooked by high ground to the E, in gently undulating pasture. Ringfort (WM017-048----) c. 82m to SE. No surface remains visible on recent Digital Globe aerial photography. Not depicted or named on the 1837 OS 6-inch map, where the area is occupied by a limestone ridge running N-S. Shown on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a small circular area (approx. diam. 3m) annotated ‘Cave’ at the S end of a curvilinear earthwork which is labelled ‘Sand Pit (Disused)’. The site is described in 1971 as located at the S end of a curvilinear depression which is represents the remains of a relatively modern quarry. There are no surface remains visible of a 'Cave' or souterrain. A shallow, circular depression (diam. 3m; max. D 0.65m) in the floor of the quarry may mark the site of a collapsed chamber belonging to a souterrain that was mainly removed by quarrying of the sand pit.

Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien

Date of upload: 07 December 2018

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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