Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - road/trackway
Corrofin, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corrofin
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.43580, -8.86501
- SMR number
- GA057-161----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On W bank of the River Clare a short distance S of Corrofin Castle (GA057-089----). Aerial reconnaissance in July 1970 (CUCAP BDN 77) showed a section of an old roadway (L c. 60m) immediately SW of the building marked 'Corofin Lodge' on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1933). This comprised a slightly raised linear earthwork defined by two low parallel banks. It followed a NE-SW axis but appeared to turn W at its SW end, where its line could be traced for a further c. 100m as a faint ridge and cropmark. At its NE end, its NE-SW axis is continued by a field boundary for a further c. 75m. Its presence suggests that there was an older crossing point c. 100m downstream from the present bridge (GA057-091----), probably at the point where 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map shows a weir. Not visited.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.