Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Davidstown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Davidstown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.54951, -7.53520
- SMR number
- WM018-031001-
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 a small terrace of SW-facing slope of a hillock with good views to S and W. Within the centre of ringfort (WM018-031----) are the remains of a broad L-shaped depression (approx. Wth 2.8m; D 1m) running (approx. max. L 20.2m) NNW-SSE toward the scarp at SSE. This linear depression may represent the remains of a collapsed souterrain passage.
See attached sketch plan of monument by the ASI.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 11 January 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.