Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Knockaville, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockaville
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.48291, -7.25245
- SMR number
- WM026-046002-
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 at the W end of a low ridge running E-W, in undulating rough pasture. In the NW sector of ringfort (WM026-046----) is a slight zigzag-shaped depression (overall L 17m; Wth 2.38m; D 0.4m) extending from the ringfort bank at NW to the N corner of house site (WM026-046001-) and may represent the remains of a collapsed souterrain.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 02 October 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.