Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Pitfield
Tonroe, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tonroe
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.78121, -8.31858
- SMR number
- RO021-042038-
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 the gentle N-facing slope of a WNW-ESE ridge. An area of c. 5 ha (c. 12 acres) contains pits visible on aerial photograph (ACAP: V206/7). Some pits (dims c. 5m x c. 2m; D c. 0.2m) survive in rough lines running E-W and placed c. 30m apart.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.