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Gatehouse

Knocknashee, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Gatehouse, Knocknashee, County Roscommon, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Knocknashee
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
53.97357, -8.29732
SMR number
RO006-068010-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

The fortification of the cloister as a bawn (RO006-068009-) now has a restored 16th century gatehouse (ext. dims 9.85m E-W; c. 5.2m N-S) of two stories and attic in the W wall. The entrance passage (Wth 2.6m) has chambers off it to the S and N, that on the N leading by a stairs to the first floor which has rectangular windows with square hood mouldings and a wooden floor. The red-tiled roof is a reproduction of the original, evidence of which was recovered in excavation. A N-S ditch, which was probably contemporary with the re-used gatehouse, was revealed in excavation c. 40m to the NW (Read 2006a).

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 August 2010

References

Read, C. 2006a Boyle Abbey, Knocknashee, Boyle: post-medieval ditch. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2003: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 418-9, No. 1551. Bray. Wordwell.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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