Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Crannog
Tonbaun, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tonbaun
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.74308, -8.27946
- SMR number
- RO028-176----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
About 160m from the NE shore of a triangular turlough (dims c. 1 km NW-SE; c. 600m NE-SW at SE). Circular grass-covered mound (diam. 26.5m N-S; 25m E-W; H 0.7-1.3m). It is overlain by an E-W drystone wall S of the centre, and crannog (RO028-177----) is c. 200m to the ESE. (Herity 1987a, 139)
See the attached view taken from the road to the NE when the turlough is full.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Herity, M. 1987a A survey of the royal site of Cruachain in Connaught. 3. Ringforts and ecclesiastical sites. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 117, 125-41.
Nearby in the register
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Sweathouseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.