Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Linear earthwork
Corracloona,aghavanny, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corracloona,aghavanny
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Worm Ditch or Black Pigs Race
- Coordinates
- 54.34204, -8.00949
- SMR number
- LE008-012----
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 1869 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated In a slight basin in an undulating landscape at the NE foothills of Thur Mountain. A section of a linear earthwork extending NW-SE (L c. 700m) survives, apart from an interruption (L c. 100m) at a small lake. It consists of a fosse (Wth 2.4m; D 0.35m) flanked by earthen banks to the NE (Wth 4m; H 0.55m) and to the SW (Wth 3m: H 0.4m). It extends almost as far as another small lake (diam. c. 70m) and is continued c. 500m to the ESE (LE009-001----) and c. 2.6 km to the NW (LE008-009---).
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
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Linear earthworkunder 1 mi
- Sweathouse1 mi
- Ringfort - rath1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.