Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Breanletter, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Breanletter
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.02939, -8.12645
- SMR number
- RO004-040----
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
Marked as a circular feature (diam. 30m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and as a fragment of a bank (C c. 20m) S-W on the 1914 ed. Situated on the steep NE-facing slope of Ballyfermoyle Hill. It is not now visible at ground level in scrub and rough pasture.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.