Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - road/trackway
Knockarush, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockarush
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.95063, -8.28080
- SMR number
- RO006-198----
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 as a linear feature on aerial photographs (OS: 1, 33223-2; OSI 2005), and situated on an undulating landscape with rock outcrop. A depression (L c. 800m; Wth 8-10m) aligned NW-SE may be an older alignment of the N61 Tulsk-Boyle road which at the moment loops c. 200m to the E or it may be a field boundary.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.