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Earthwork

Carrownaknockaun, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Earthwork, Carrownaknockaun, 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
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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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 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 Unpublished typed index cards prepared for Roscommon County Council.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

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

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