Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Shankoagh, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shankoagh
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.71931, -8.45438
- SMR number
- RO027-084----
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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
On a gentle NE-facing slope on the W side of the NW-SE River Suck which is c. 40m to the NE. D-shaped grass and rush-covered area (int. dims 13.4m NNE-SSW; 11m WNW-ESE) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 1.7-1.9m; int. H 0.1-0.4m; ext. H 0.5-0.6m) and rush-covered fosse (Wth of base 1.2m; D 0.2m) SSW-W-NNE. It is cut by a NNE-SSW field bank at E, and does not survive E of this feature. Children's burial ground (RO034-105----) is c. 210m to the SE, and earthwork (RO027-085----) is c. 120m to the E on the other side of the river.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - inlandunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.