Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
Sheepwalk, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Sheepwalk
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cashel
- Coordinates
- 53.88616, -8.44285
- SMR number
- RO015-002001-
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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
On a flat landscape with rock outcrop. Circular grass-covered area (int. diam. 105m N-S; 100m E-W) defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 5.7-7.2m; int. H 0.2-0.4m; ext. H 0.6-1m), which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.5m) N of an E-W field bank overlying the site towards the perimeter at N. There is no visible entrance or facing stones. There is no evidence of a church, but the children's burial ground (RO015-002002-) is at the centre.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.