Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Linear earthwork
Moneylea, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moneylea
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.80891, -8.31491
- SMR number
- RO021-042005-
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
On a level landscape. Aerial photographs (CUCCAP: AJN 100; UCG 167) show a stretch of ground (L c. 100m; Wth c. 10m) running E-W defined by earthen banks (Wth c. 5-8m; H 1-2m) at N and S. It is no longer visible at ground level in reclaimed pasture. Barrow (RO021-042002-) and souterrain (RO021-042003-) are c. 140m to the NW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ceremonial enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.