Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - road/trackway
Lurga,lustia, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lurga,lustia
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.00017, -8.08126
- SMR number
- RO007-011002-
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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 floodplain of the River Shannon. Described as an 'old deserted canal' (RO007-011001-) accompanied by a laneway or towpath on an undated Longfield map in NLI (ms. 21. F. 44 (40)). The canal (original L c. 2 km) ran from just below Battle Bridge to a point just above Inishnagon island, Co. Leitrim, and was replaced by the present Lough Allen canal on the Leitrim side in the 1850s. The canal was c. 100-200m from the river and has largely been filled in, but an extensive grass and reed-covered section (L c. 700m; Wth 8-11m; D 0.2-0.9m) survives at its N end. There is no clear evidence of a towpath.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Canalunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.