Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Well
Greatdown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Greatdown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.51254, -7.24439
- SMR number
- WM019-086----
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 in a low-lying boggy area of pasture, which is cut by a deep drain. Not depicted on OS historic mapping, although a well symbol is depicted c. 20m to NNE on the 1837 OS 6-inch map. Levelled monument described in 1983 as no surface remains visible. No well visible today on Digital Globe aerial photography. The classification of this site is uncertain as there is a note in the SMR file which suggests that there may have been a souterrain marked 'in pencil' at this location on the Ordnance Survey field map (SMR File).
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 05 June 2019
Nearby in the register
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.