Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - road/trackway
Calloughs,druminshin Glebe,killahurk, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Calloughs,druminshin Glebe,killahurk
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.98198, -7.65276
- SMR number
- LE030-029----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated in a broad valley bottom. It is depicted as a linear feature only on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map. This is an overgrown disused roadway visible as a sunken area (Wth of base 6.5m) extending NNW-SSE (L c. 170m). It is flanked by a scarp (H 0.7m) surmounted by a low earth and stone bank (Wth of base 4.6m; H 1.4-1.6m) to the W, and by an earthen bank (Wth of base 6.8m; Wth of top 2.9m; H 1.3-1.5m) to the E. It is bisected by an ENE-WSW access road and is free of overgrowth S of this. The relict road runs parallel with the present R204 Carrigallen to Ballinamore road, and it was reputed locally in the 1940s (SMR file) to have been a famine road that was never completed. It is continued by the relict road (LE030-018----) c. 1.5km further NW.
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.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 14 October 2019
References
SMR file - Sites and monuments record files in the National Monuments Service, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.
Nearby in the register
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- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stone - pairunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.