Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - indeterminate date
Carrickmore, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrickmore
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.96001, -8.26344
- SMR number
- RO006-127----
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
Visible on aerial photographs (OS 1, 3323-2), and situated on a shelf on the slight N-facing slope of a ridge. Subrectangular grass-covered area (dims 7.8m E-W; 3.5m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth. 2.2-3.8m; H 0.1-0.3m). There is an entrance (Wth. 3m) at SSE. Archaeological excavation (08E0007) recovered only a short section of a ditch (L 1.1m; Wth 0.3-0.55m; D 0.14m) and evidence of seven post-holes leading the excavator to suggest that it may have been a ritual rather than domestic site (Tierney 2011). One piece of struck flint was recovered from topsoil (Tierney 2008)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 20th June 2011
Amended: 29 January 2020
References
Tierney, M. 2011 Carrickmore. Hut site. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2008: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 303, No. 1023. Dublin. Wordwell.
Tierney, M. 2008 Archaeological excavation at Carrickmore, Boyle, Co. Roscommon. Licence No. 08E0007. Unpublished report, The Archaeology Company
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