Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Lurgan (frenchpark By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lurgan (frenchpark By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.88497, -8.37553
- SMR number
- RO015-014001-
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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 as a triangular feature (dims c. 40m N-S; c. 35m E-W) only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on the E bank of the S-N Breedoge River c. 100m N of Bella Bridge. It is not visible at ground level, and it may have been a spoil mound from drainage of the river. Earthwork (RO015-014002-) is. c. 20m to the S, and this site is on the NW edge of earthwork (RO015-014003-).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.