Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Gatehouse
Knocknashee, County Roscommon, Ireland
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-
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
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
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Kiln - potteryunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.