Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Skeagh More, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Skeagh More
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cave
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.53804, -7.55335
- SMR number
- WM017-055----
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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 ENE side of a natural rise, on the demesne lands of Oldtown House located 230m to NW. The souterrain lies immediately W side of the townland boundary with Corkan. Site of church (WM017-063----), abbey (WM017-054---) and possible ogham stone (WM017-054002-) 230m to NW. Souterrain (WM017-057----) 300m to NE, second souterrain (WM017-051----) annotated 'Cave' located 375m to W.
Depicted on the 1837 OS 6-inch map as a small circular feature (approx. diam. 7m) that is annotated ‘Cave’. Monument not visible on Digital Globe aerial photography. No surface remains of souterrain described in 1971 as ‘inaccessible’ with ‘no visible trace of a superstructure’. A roughly oval shaped cropmark (WM017-055001-) visible on Digital Globe aerial photography to the immediate W of the townland boundary could be the remains of a levelled ringfort associated with the souterrain.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 13 December 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Religious house - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.