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Linear earthwork

Corraleskin,Gortnaderrary, County Leitrim, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Linear earthwork, Corraleskin, Gortnaderrary, County Leitrim, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Corraleskin,Gortnaderrary
County
Leitrim
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Worm Ditch or Black Pigs Race
Coordinates
54.35371, -8.05646
SMR number
LE008-009----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1869 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 4. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Located in an undulating landscape at the lower NE-facing foothills of Dough Mountain . This linear earthwork (L c. 1.25km) survives in interrupted sections, and is oriented generally NW-SE. It is located c. 1-1.2km SW from the SE-NW County River, which provides the boundary with Co. Fermanagh. The earthwork is generally overgrown but is sometimes grass-covered and in places passes through a coniferous forest. It consists of a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 3-4.5m), usually with higher ground (H 1.2-1.5m) at SW and a low bank (Wth 3-5m; H 0.2-0.5m) on the NE side. The NW end of this ditch was utilised as a roadway and it terminates c. 150m SW of Lough Tiernan and c. 400m from the S end of the linear earthwork (LE005-014----), which continues the line of the Black Pig’s Race towards Donegal Bay. Towards the S end this section becomes a simple ditch (Wth of base 1.5m; D 0.3m) with a field bank at the NE side, and it terminates c. 200m NW of a SW-NE section of the W-E Sraduffy River. Another section (LE008-012----) is c. 2.6km to the SE.

The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Date of upload: 23 September 2008

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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