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Excavation - miscellaneous

Cloongownagh, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Excavation - miscellaneous, Cloongownagh, County Roscommon, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Cloongownagh
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.94942, -8.14571
SMR number
RO007-100----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Identified in monitoring (03E1374) a road project during 2003 (Haliday 2006, 424, site 4) and completely excavated (03E1770). A working floor (dims c. 5m x c. 4m) with a number of small pits was covered in charred organic material and baked clay (Quinney et al. 2004, 9, site 4). Another excavated feature (RO011-164002-) is c. 10m to the S.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 August 2010

References

Halliday, S. 2006 N4 Hughestown–Meera road realignment scheme: various. In I. Bennett, (ed.), Excavations 2003: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 423-4, No. 1579. Dublin. Wordwell.

Quinney, P., Gannon, S. and Carroll, J. 2004 Hughestown – Meera, Roscommon N4 Re-alignment scheme. Archaeological excavations Preliminary report, Licence Nos: 03E1769; 03E1770; 03E1771; 03E1841 & 04E0375. Unpublished, Judith Carroll and Company

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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