Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - indeterminate date
Knockroe (boyle By., Killummod Ed), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockroe (boyle By., Killummod Ed)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.90042, -8.18707
- SMR number
- RO010-085002-
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
At the W end of the S shore of Canbo Lough (dims c. 1.3km E-W; c. 100-300m N-S) that has shrunk into two lakes. Just NE of castle (RO010-085001-) are grass-covered foundations (Wth 1.1m) of a small rectangular building (int. dims 4.8m E-W; 4m N-S), and to the ESE a short length (1.5m) of a wall foundation remains. Canbo fortified house (RO010-084001-) is c. 1.2km to the ENE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.