Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Petitswood, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Petitswood
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.52136, -7.31320
- SMR number
- WM019-077001-
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 natural rise in gently undulating land with good views in all directions. Within the SW quadrant of ringfort (WM019-077----) is a very wide depression (basal Wth 1.8m; D 1.2m) which extends (max. L 22m) from the interior of the bank at S to the gap at WSW and which may represent a collapsed souterrain.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 04 June 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.