Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Linear earthwork
Corracloona, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corracloona
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Worm Ditch or Black Pigs Dyke
- Coordinates
- 54.33649, -7.99070
- SMR number
- LE009-001----
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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
Located in an undulating, low-lying landscape between a NW-SE drumlin ridge c. 300m to the NE and the lower foothills of Thur Mountain to the SW. This is a discontinuous, overgrown linear feature (L c. 600m) aligned NW-SE, consisting of a V-sectioned fosse (Wth of top 4.5-5m; D 0.4m) at the NW end to a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of top 3.5m; D 0.45m; max. D 1m) at the SE end, flanked by earth and stone banks (Wth 2.8m; H 0.35m) on either side. It is continued c. 500m to the WNW by another section (LE008-012---) and its E end is c. 400m W of the N point of Lough Macnean Upper (dims c. 4.5km NW-SE; c. 1.5km NE-SW). (Kane 1909, 321).
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
References
Kane, W.F. de Vismes 1909 The Black Pig's Dyke: the ancient boundary fortification of Uladh. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 27C, No. 14, 301-28.
Nearby in the register
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- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Sweathouseunder 1 mi
- Linear earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.