Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - road/trackway
Carrowntoosan, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowntoosan
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.79532, -8.28632
- SMR number
- RO022-057061-
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
Marked on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on the N-facing slope of a low hill at the E foot of Rathcroghan ridge. An earthen bank (Wth 2.2m; H 0.6m) aligned NW-SE (L c. 1km) is separated by a berm (Wth 2.2m) at SW from a lower earthen bank (Wth 5m; H 0.3-0.5m) with traces of a drain (Wth 1.7m) outside it. This may have been part of the Tulsk-Bellanagare road (now N5) before the present road, looping S of the hill, was constructed before 1837 (OS 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map). (Waddell 1983, 41)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Waddell, J. 1983 Rathcroghan - a royal site in Connaught. Journal of Irish Archaeology 1, 21-46.
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.