Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Skeagh More, County Westmeath, Ireland
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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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 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.