Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Carrownaknockaun, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrownaknockaun
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.85225, -8.64220
- SMR number
- RO013-014001-
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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 only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as an oval feature (dims c. 25m NE-SW; c. 20m NW-SE), and situated on low-lying ground with a NW-SE stream c. 200m to the NE. D-shaped grass and scrub-covered platform (dims 28m NE-SW; 10m NW-SW) defined by a scarp (H 0.5-0.8m) with a grass-covered earthen bank (Wth 2.2m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.5m) separated by a berm (Wth 1m) from the edge of the platform at NW. It has been truncated at SE by the building of a NE-SW farm track. There is a local tradition of its use as a children's burial ground (RO013-014002-) (Gannon 1972), but there is no evidence of burial.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Gannon, A. 1972 Archaeological survey of Roscommon. Unpublished typed index cards prepared for Roscommon County Council.
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.