Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Kilcooley, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcooley
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.76924, -8.20716
- SMR number
- RO028-046003-
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
On a broad low hill N of the church site of Kilcooley (RO028-046001-). North of the graveyard (RO028-046002-) is a rectangular enclosure visible as a grass-covered platform (dims 44m E-W; 23m N-S) defined by scarps (at W: H 0.3m) with a bank (Wth 3-3.5m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.5m-0.8m) on the N and W sides. Immediately to the N of this a SW-NE roadway (RO028-046004-) (Wth 12m) defined by earthen banks (Wth 3.5-4.5m; int. H 0.3-0.8m; ext. H 0.2m) extends off to the NE in interrupted sections (L c. 450m).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.