Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Quarry
Ballyformoyle, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyformoyle
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.03383, -8.13627
- SMR number
- RO004-038----
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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
Marked only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as an oval feature (dims. c. 30m NW-SE; c. 20m NE-SW), and situated on a shelf at the bottom of the N-facing slope of Ballyfermoyle Hill. This is a sand quarry, disused since the 1940s.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.