Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - road/trackway
Ballintober, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballintober
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.72128, -8.41052
- SMR number
- RO027-048023-
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
Situated on a gentle E-facing slope between Ballintober castle (RO027-048002-) and a turlough c. 350m to the E where a possible crannog (RO027-048025-) has been identified. Magnetometer and ground penetrating radar surveys (15R0051) conducted during 2015-18 over an extensive area of c. 7 hectares (c. 18 acres) demonstrate that a settlement (RO0287-048024-) clustered around a NW-SE roadway (Wth 12-14m; recorded L 200m plus) running SE from the gateway in the E curtain wall of the castle. Excavation (15E0232) across the roadway in 2017 revealed it to be a roughly-paved surface (Wth 4m) with an accompanying drain on the SW side and a path on the other (Brady et al. 2018, 18-20, 26). (Brady et al. 2017, 31-44; Brady 2018)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 November 2020
References
Brady, N., Connell, S., Maurer, K., Cearley, D. and L. Conyers 2017 Archaeological Excavation and Survey. Ballintober Castle and precinct, Ballintober, Co. Roscommon. Licences: 15E0232; 15R0051. 2016 season. Unpublished report. Castles in Communities: medieval Ireland Past and Present
Brady, N., Connell, S., Cearley, D. and A. Blair 2018a Archaeological Excavation and Survey. Ballintober Castle and precinct, Ballintober, Co. Roscommon. Licences: 15E0232; 15R0051. 2017 season. Unpublished report. Castles in Communities: medieval Ireland Past and Present
Brady, N., Connell, S., Maurer, K., Cearley, D, Gifford, C. and A. L. González 2018 Castles in Communities. Archaeology Ireland, vol. 32, No. 4, issue 126, 17-22.
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Cross - Market crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.