Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
Gortnacrannagh, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortnacrannagh
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.82723, -8.22336
- SMR number
- RO022-167----
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
First identified in an unpublished archaeological LiDAR report (Davis, 2015) and unpublished archaeo-geophysical report (Bonsall & Gimson 2015) commissioned by Roscommon County Council as part of the Environmental Impact Assessment for the N5 Ballaghaderreen - Scramoge road development. It is located on a gentle NE-facing slope. While the LiDAR image shows a small circular feature that might be surrounded by a bank (Davis 2015, 116, No. 45.4) there is no surface indication of an antiquity. The area has also been tested archaeologically (Licence 15E0588) by Aidan O’Connell, who identified two linear features likely to be furrows and an isolated sub-oval pit (dims 1.7m E-W; 1.45m N-S; D 0.13m) (O’Connell, forthcoming).
Compiled by : Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 5 August, 2016
References
Davis, S. 2015 N5 Strokestown - Ballaghderreen preferred route corridor: Lidar assessment. unpublished report for Roscommon County Council: UCD School of Archaeology
Bonsall J & Gimson H, 2015 N5 Ballaghaderreen- Scramoge Road Development, Archaeological Consultancy Services, Stage (i) i Geophysical Survey, License 15R123 & 15E0438, 2015. Unpublished report for Roscommon County Council.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Pitfieldunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.