Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
Gortanure, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortanure
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.94073, -8.66284
- SMR number
- RO008C004003-
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
On a rise on a gentle N-facing slope. Archaeological testing (E3354) during 2006 c. 35m outside the perimeter of rath (RO008C004001-) at SW produced portion of a pit with charcoal and an oxidised base (dims 1.72m E-W; 1.2m N-S; D 0.35m). Charcoal from the pit produced C14 dates of AD 1310-1440. (Kerrigan 2009c; Kerrigan and Gillespie 2010b, 347)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 26th September 2011
References
Kerrigan, A. 2009c Gortanure: enclosure and childrens burial-ground. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2006: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 459, No. 1731. Dublin. Wordwell.
Kerrigan, A. and Gillespie, R.F. 2010b Relics of the Irish rural landscape. In R.F. Gillespie and A. Kerrigan, Of troughs and tuyéres. NRA Scheme monographs No. 6, 341-364. Dublin. National Roads Authority.
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.