Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Pearsonsbrook, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Pearsonsbrook
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.47334, -7.84778
- SMR number
- WM022-034001-
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 the NNE side of a hilltop, in pasture with excellent views to NW, N and NE. Located within the interior of ringfort (WM022-034----) a depression (L 11m; Wth 1.6m; D 0.35m) extends to the edge of the scarp at N which may represent collapse into a souterrain.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 16 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - bowl-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.