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Linear earthwork

Corracloona, County Leitrim, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Linear earthwork, Corracloona, 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
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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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, 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

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

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