Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - road/trackway
Glenvela,gortnasillagh, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glenvela,gortnasillagh
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.77727, -8.36463
- SMR number
- RO021-069002-
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. At the S edge of the field system (RO021-069001-) there is a WNW-ESE roadway (Wth 6-8m; surviving L c. 200m) defined by earth and stone banks (Wth 1.5-2m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.6-0.8m). A drystone wall and townland boundary with Gortnasillagh is its N perimeter. It is indicated as extending c. 300m further W on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and it would have met road (RO027-013----) c. 350m E of the surviving section.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Pitfieldunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.