Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Linear earthwork
Cuiltyconway, County Roscommon, Ireland
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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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
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.