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Carns, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Building, Carns, County Roscommon, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Carns
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.75392, -8.25488
SMR number
RO028-075001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On a SE-facing slope at the E end of the Carnfree ridge, and just W of the church (RO028-075005-). This is a rectangular structure (ext. dims 13.8m WNW-ESE; 7m NNE-SSW) which was defined by stone walls (Wth c. 1m; H 0.5m) with entrances at the centre of the N (Wth 1.2m) and S (Wth 1.7m) walls which on excavation (06E0655) is identified as a possible priest's house (Shanahan 2006, 6-9; 2009a, 455-6). The church (RO028-075005-), is immediately to the E but the priest's house is within a rectangular enclosure (RO028-075002-).

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 13th September, 2010.

References

Shanahan, B. 2009a Carns. Church site, deserted settlement and field system, possibly prehistoric. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2006: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 455-6, No. 1715. Dublin. Wordwell.

Shanahan, B. 2006 Recent research in Roscommon by the Discovery Programme's Medieval Rural Settlement Project. Bullitin of the Group for the Study of Historic Irish Settlement, No. 11, 1-9.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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