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Settlement cluster

Cloonastiallas, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Settlement cluster, Cloonastiallas, 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
Cloonastiallas
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.74424, -8.18643
SMR number
RO028-264----

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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

Situated towards the bottom of a gentle W-facing slope. The earthworks of a street (L c. 170m NNE-SSW; Wth c. 10-15m) are clearly visible on Google Earth (01/03/2010) and were first reported by Rob O’Hara. About six house plots (dims c. 20-40m x c. 20-25m) can be seen on each side of the street. Behind the house plots larger fields (dims c. 100m E-W; c. 50m N-S). SE of the street is a triangular field with cultivation ridges but the house plots are free of these features. The fields extend east to a NNE-SSW public road and beyond it covering about 14 ha (c. 35 acres), although E of the road much of the area is reclaimed. On the W side of the relict street the ground slips into lower boggy ground where no field banks can be seen. On inspection only one house platform could be recognised on the E side of the street as a stony platform (dims 7.5m N-S; c. 3m E-W) defined by scarps at W and N but melding into the ground level on the other sides. The field banks and cultivation ridges were not visible on the ground.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 25 February 2020
Amended|: 8 September 2020

Nearby in the register

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

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