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Linear earthwork

Cuiltyconway, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Linear earthwork, Cuiltyconway, 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
Cuiltyconway
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
The Doon
Coordinates
53.91689, -8.04121
SMR number
RO011-188----

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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

Located on the flood-plain of the River Shannon, on the SE bank of a SW-NE section of the river. Two parallel and overgrown earthen banks extend along the bank of the river (L c. 1.2km). Towards its middle point it consists of an earth and stone bank (Wth of base 15.7m; Wth of top 3m; H at SE 1m; H at NW 1.8m) and outer fosse (Wth of top 14.3m; Wth of base 5.7m; ext. D 0.5-1m) with a slight outer bank (Wth of base 7.6m; ext. H 0.4-0.9m). A further section of double banks (RO011-058----) cuts off a loop in the River Shannon, commencing c. 370m to the NE of the NE end of this section. Archaeological montoring (09E0526) of works at the S end of the banks in Cuiltyconway also failed to recover archaeological material (Read 2013a).

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 30 April, 2015

References

Read, C. 2013a Cuiltyconway: linear earthwork. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2010: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 181, No. 575. Dublin. Wordwell.

Nearby in the register

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

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