Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Rathtrim, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathtrim
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.53771, -7.52233
- SMR number
- WM018-050001-
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 low rise, in undulating pasture with good views to N and NE, overlooked by higher ridges to SE, S and SW. In the NW half of the interior of ringfort (WM018-050----). Described in 1980 as a roughly Z-shaped depression which may be a collapsed souterrain. This is a grass-covered hollow and there are no stones visible. It extends from inside the bank at W toward the centre and from there to the scarp at N.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 04 February 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.