Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - road/trackway
Tawnytaskin, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tawnytaskin
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.98603, -8.28001
- SMR number
- RO006-027----
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).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Visible on aerial photographs (OS 1 3320-1), and situated on level ground on the N bank of the W-E Boyle River, c. 750m from where it enters Lough Key. A raised grass-covered roadway (Wth 4.5-6m; H 0.2-0.4m) flanked by silted drains runs N from Drum Bridge towards the foothills of the Curlew Mountains (L c. 300m) where it might have connected with the road over the hills (RO006-001----), the nearest portion of which is c. 2.5 km to the NW. It might also have connected with the road (RO006-026004-) c. 400m to the SW and the road (RO006-077002-), c. 1.5 km to the S.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.