Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Killukin (roscommon By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killukin (roscommon By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.75107, -8.17658
- SMR number
- RO028-108002-
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
Towards the top of the gentle W-facing slope of a drumlin overlooking Ardakillin Lough c. 350m to NW. The parish church of Killukin (RO028-108001-) is within a D-shaped grass-covered enclosure (dims 50m N-S; 49m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.2-1m) with the straight side at N. There is no evidence of burial, and the perimeter at E is overlain by a N-S field wall. A rectangular limestone block (RO028-108003-) with a carved face at one end (Siggins 1990, 45) is now in Strokestown Heritage Centre (RO029-012----).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Siggins, A. 1990 Heads and tails of stone. Journal of the County Roscommon Historical and Archaeological Society 3, 45-8.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Architectural featureunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.