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Tully (castlereagh By.), County Roscommon, Ireland

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Townland
Tully (castlereagh By.)
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.81607, -8.41268
SMR number
RO021-022012-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 S-facing slope of a shelf overlooking a bog to the SE. A rectangular platform (RO021-022008-) which may be rock-outcrop is at the apex of a D-shaped enclosure (dims 48m NW-SE; 33m NE-SW) defined by a fosse (Wth of top 7.7m; Wth of base 3.5m; int. D 0.6m; ext. D 0.4m) SE-S, which merges into a scarp (H 0.3m) S-SW. The enclosure is cut by a NW-SE road at E and the NE-SW Bellanagare to Castlerea road at N and does not survive beyond these features (original diam. c. 80-100m). There is a tradition of its use as a children’s burial ground (RO021-022009-) and as a graveyard (RO021-022010-) (Knox 1902c, 188-9), but there is no evidence of burial.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of revised upload: 3 July 2015

Knox, H.T. 1902c Miscellanea - Bullauns, forming two of St. Patrick's Wells in Connaught. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 32, 188-90.

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