Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - road/trackway
Glendossaun, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glendossaun
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Partially indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.07516, -7.65383
- SMR number
- OF037-022----
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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
Situated on steep W facing slope of rising ground in upland area. Monument consists of two parallel field walls (H 0.8m) forming a road or trackway (Wth 6m) running N-S up from the river valley to the summit of the mountain in Glendossaun. According to local historian Paddy Lowry this may have been a drove road where the cattle were driven up from the river valley to the mountain top between the two walls.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien.
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Burial mound1 mi
- Enclosure2 mi
- Castle - unclassified2 mi
- Enclosure2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.