Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
Rathcronan, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathcronan
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.77485, -7.49863
- SMR number
- LF010-132----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Circa 32m to the SE of a hilltop enclosure (LF010-080----). An extensive programme of archaeological trenching undertaken in 2006, in advance of a large housing development at Granard, revealed a series of three possible post-holes contained within an area 2m x 2m. Two of the post-holes (diam. 0.2m and 0.45m) were suboval in plan and one (diam. 0.13m) was subcircular. All were filled with homogenous mid-brown silty clay clearly discernible from the surrounding boulder clay. No dating material was obtained (Moore and Kiernan 2007, 34; Moore 2010, 304).
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 25 February 2013
Nearby in the register
- Hillfortunder 1 mi
- Castle - motte and baileyunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Inauguration siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.