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Road - road/trackway

Ballyconboy,Kilvoy, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Road - road/trackway, Ballyconboy, Kilvoy, County Roscommon, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballyconboy,Kilvoy
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Ancient Road
Coordinates
53.81350, -8.31159
SMR number
RO022-056002-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On the N-facing slope of Rathcroghan ridge. It ran from the complex rath of Rathmore (RO022-056017-) down the slope just W of enclosure (RO022-056015-), E of barrow (RO022-056004-) and the mound Croghaunbawn (RO022-056003-) to an E-W public road (L c. 2 km). It may have been continued c. 1km to the N by a N-S public road, and the avenue to Mantua House (total L c. 4km).
Only short sections are visible to-day, but it is known locally to be a hard stony surface which parches in dry weather. Just N of Rathmore it is a grass-covered causeway (Wth 6m; H c. 0.4m; L c. 100m) with a drystone wall on the E side. About 200m to the N is a further section (L c.100m) visible as a causeway (Wth 2m; H 0.3-0.6m) with a drystone wall down the centre and a flat-bottomed silted ditch (Wth of base 1.7m; D 0.3m) on the W side. W of the ditch a parched strip (Wth c. 2m) indicates a bank. To the N of an E-W public lane in Ballyconboy it is visible as a causeway (Wth 7m; H c. 0.2m; L c. 300m) from which a stone wall has been removed and with a lush grass strip on the W side.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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