Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - road/trackway
Garrow, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garrow
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Botharboy Pass
- Latest-edition OS map
- Bothar an Iarla Ruadh or the Red Earls Road
- Coordinates
- 54.00172, -8.31659
- SMR number
- RO005-003----
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
Traditionally built by the Red Earl, who may be Red Hugh O'Donnell (O'Flanagan 1931, vol. 1, 105) or Ulick Burke, the Red Earl of Ulster c. 1300, it was further consolidated by Manus O'Donnell in 1540 and Owen Roe O'Neill in 1648 (O'Rorke, 1890, vol. 2, 299-301). It runs N-S through rough pasture and blanket bog across the Curlew Mountains in a valley called the Yellow Pass connecting Boyle with Co. Sligo (L c. 3km), and the battle of the Curlews (RO006-002001-) in 1599 was fought along part of its length. Its N end in Co. Sligo is in a coniferous forest, but it can be traced (L c. 1km) in Co. Roscommon across bogland as a depression (Wth 6-9m; D c. 0.2-1m).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
O'Rorke, T. 1889 (Reprint 1986) The history of Sligo: town and county, 2 vols. Dublin. J. Duffy and Co. Ltd.
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1931 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Roscommon collected during the progress of the
Ordnance Survey in 1837. Bray.
Nearby in the register
- Battlefieldunder 1 mi
- Monumental structureunder 1 mi
- Battlefieldunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.