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Road - road/trackway

Corracoggil North,Creevy, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Road - road/trackway, Corracoggil North, Creevy, 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
Corracoggil North,Creevy
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
53.86084, -8.63270
SMR number
RO013-008----

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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)
  • 1857 · 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 as an ancient road on a Longfield map of 1826 in NLI (ms. 21.F.44(72)). Running NNE-SSW (L c. 1 km) across a WNW-ESE ridge. The S end is a farm lane bordered by overgrown earthen banks, and N of an E-W public road it is a right of way along the townland boundary with Creevy to the E. Archaeological testing (06E0116) at its S end did not produce any evidence of a roadway, (FitzPatrick 2009a).

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 August 2010

References

Fitzpatrick, M. 2009a Creevy: no archaeological significance. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2006: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 457, No. 1723. 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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