Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
Church Hill, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Church Hill
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.97830, -8.12746
- SMR number
- RO007-038003-
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
There is a D-shaped enclosure (dims c. 70m E-W; c. 35m N-S) around the church (RO007-038001-) which has the straight side at N, but there is no evidence of burial (RO006-038004-). A low scarp c. 22m E of the church may represent part of an original enclosure. Archaeological testing (19E0066) for a forestry road at the W edge of the field and immediately W of this feature produced no related material (Henry 2019: excavations.ie 2019:561).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Amended: 28 October 2020
References
Henry, M. 2019 Archaeological impact assessment of the Construction of a Forestry Road and Associated Works at Church Hill, Cootehall, Co. Roscommon. Licence No. 19E0066. Unpublished report, Mary Henry Archaeological Services.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.