Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - road/trackway
Ardcarn (boyle By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardcarn (boyle By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ancient Road
- Coordinates
- 53.96537, -8.19831
- SMR number
- RO006-103008-
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
On the SE-facing slopes of a rise and flat ground. Linear grass-covered feature (L 700m; Wth 4.6m-6m) beginning c. 100m E of Ardcarn Church (RO006-103002-) at a point where it meets road (RO006-103012-) and running off to the SE, parallel with the N4 and c. 30-40m from it. Archaeological testing across this feature towards its S end showed that it had been created by cutting back the soil and heaping it to either side to make the banks, but no metalled surface or dating evidence was recovered (Halpin 1995).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Halpin, E. 1995 'Ardcarna', Ardcarn. Close to monastic enclosure. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1994: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 67-8, No. 192. Bray. Wordwell.
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