Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - road/trackway
Corracoggil North,creevy, County Roscommon, Ireland
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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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
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.
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