Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Chapel
Rosmeen, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rosmeen
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.72237, -8.41558
- SMR number
- RO027-048017-
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
Within the rectangular ward of Ballintober Castle (RO027-048002-). Resistivity, gradiometry and ground penetrating radar surveys (08R262) conducted inside and outside the castle by Target Archaeological Geophysics on behalf of the Ballintober Community Group and funded by the Heritage Council during 2008 and 2009 produced exciting results, which are largely at a depth of 0.6-1.6m. Inside the NE angle and parallel with, but c. 10m from, the curtain walls, a structure (ext. dims c. 12m E-W; c. 9m N-S) is interpreted as a possible church or chapel. Its W wall is missing, but it had external buttresses and an entrance in the N wall. SE of this, towards the castle gateway there may have been a cobbled yard. (Nicholls 2008, 2009)
Compiled by: Michael Moore.
Date of upload: 30th August, 2010.
References
Nicholls, J. 2009 Geophysical survey report: ground penetrating radar survey, Ballintober Castle, Co. Roscommon. Unpublished report, Licence No. 08R0262 Target Archaeological Geophysics.
Nicholls, J. 2008 Geophysical survey report: Ballintober Castle, Co. Roscommon. Unpublished report, Licence No: 08R0262. Target Archaeological Geophysics
Nearby in the register
- Structureunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castleunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.