Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Tartan, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tartan
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.87434, -8.30564
- SMR number
- RO016-036----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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, and situated in a low-lying landscape with a small stream immediately to the W and N. Grass and scrub-covered horseshoe-shaped mound (dims 19.5m NNW-SSE; 14m ENE-WSW; H 0.3m to 1m at W) of burnt stones in a black matrix which is open to the WSW (dims 9.2m ENE-WSW; 4.2m NNW-SSE).
See the attached view taken from the E.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.