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Road - gravel/stone trackway - peatland

Knappoge (Longford By.), County Longford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Road - gravel/stone trackway - peatland, Knappoge, County Longford, 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
Knappoge (Longford By.)
County
Longford
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.71339, -7.93551
SMR number
LF012-003----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

A gravel road (L 600m min.), orientated NNE-SSW, was exposed during peat-milling, c. 1980, 1m below the field surface. A section of it (L 190m; Wth 4m; D 0.2m) was excavated in 1988. It was found to be constructed of large pebbles set in a bed of fine gravel and sand, beneath which was a layer of coarser gravel with oak transverses that gave strength to the foundation. Beneath this again were occasional pockets of worked hazel, birch brushwood and twigs. Radiocarbon dated to AD 669-777 (1284±19 BP, GrN-16875). (Raftery 1996, Knappoge, 194-5)

Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin.

Date of upload: 26 August 2011

References

ACAP - Air Corps Aerial Photographs. Baldonnel. Co. Dublin.

Nearby in the register

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

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