Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Linear earthwork
Corry (Roscommon By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corry (Roscommon By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- The Doon
- Coordinates
- 53.91782, -8.07267
- SMR number
- RO011-080----
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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
Marked only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on the S bank of the River Shannon at a point where there may have been a ford. A grass and scrub-covered earthen bank (Wth 16-19m; H 1m at S to 4-6m on the N (river) side) running ESE-WNW (L c. 250m), parallel with and hindering access to the bank of the river. It may be part of the Doon of Drumsna (RO011-058----), the W end of which is c. 2.8 km to the ENE with an intervening section of double banks (RO011-188----) on the SE bank of the river c. 1.7km to the ESE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 30 April, 2015
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.