Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Adamstown (moycashel By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Adamstown (moycashel By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.45340, -7.51919
- SMR number
- WM025-129001-
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 top of a gentle rise, in gently undulating pasture, with extensive views to E, S and SW. In NE quadrant of ringfort (WM025-129----) immediately inside the bank at NE, is a roughly circular-shaped, shallow depression (max. diam. 3.8m). It has vague traces of a narrower depression (max. Wth 2.5m) extending (approx. L 3m) from it, to SE. These may represent a collapsed souterrain
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 24 September 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.