Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Kye, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kye
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Carn
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.85563, -8.14642
- SMR number
- RO017-124----
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 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a subrectangular cairn feature (dims c. 35m N-S; c. 20m E-W) described in gothic lettering as a 'Carn', and situated on the low-lying, level landscape of a reclaimed lake c. 20m SE of an unnamed well or swallow-hole. It is not visible at ground level in pasture. The cairns (RO017-123001-; RO017-123002-) are c. 90m to the SW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.