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Excavation - miscellaneous

Killeen East, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Excavation - miscellaneous, Killeen East, 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
Killeen East
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.82459, -8.18978
SMR number
RO022-170004-

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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

Immediately N of an enclosure (RO022-170----) and discovered through archaeological excavation in conjunction with the ‘N5 Ballaghaderreen to Scramoge Road Project’. Two roughly parallel ditches ran north–south, between 1.1m and 2.8m apart:
The westernmost (L c.23m; Wth 1.3m; D 0.33m deep (Figure 18.1) had a gently sloped W-side, a steep E-side and a concave base and the fill included mid to dark-brown silty sandy clay and mid to dark-brown silty sand containing occasional charcoal flecks.
The easternmost ditch (L c.22.5m; Wth 1m; D 0.22m) had gently sloping sides and a concave base and its single fill consisted of greyish brown silty clay containing occasional flecks of charcoal. A pit located 2.2m to the east of this ditch; oval (L1.55m; Wth 1.05m: D 0.26m) contained a single fill of mid to dark-greyish brown silty clay. A fragment of a rotary quern was recovered from the fill. The thin fragment (T 8cms) was of greyish white sandstone, circular in plan (diams. 0.4m; 0.36m) and concave in profile.
The features were fully excavated and recorded.
Also associated and excavated were a ring-ditch (RO022-170001-) and a series of pits (RO022-170002- and RO022-170003-).

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy

Date of upload: 4 August 2023

Nearby in the register

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

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