Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - road/trackway
Castleplunket,milltown (castlereagh By., Castleteheen Ed), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castleplunket,milltown (castlereagh By., Castleteheen Ed)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.74684, -8.34116
- SMR number
- RO027-041----
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
Visible on aerial photographs (GSIAP: M, 65-6), and situated in a shallow basin that is frequently flooded. A grass and rush-covered carriageway (Wth c. 9m; L c. 500m) is bordered by an earthen bank at W (Wth 2m; int. H 0.65m; ext. H 0.3m) and E (Wth 1.5m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.1m) with internal ditches (Wth 1.8-2m; D 0.1-0.2m). The road is running N-S from the traditional site of Milltown House (RO027-087----) at S end towards Castleplunket village, but it stops c. 200m from the Main St.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
GSIAP - Geological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1973). Geological Survey. Beggars Bush, Haddington Road, Dublin 4.
Nearby in the register
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.