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Road - gravel/stone trackway - peatland

Mountdillon, County Roscommon, Ireland

The record

Townland
Mountdillon
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.72411, -7.98604
SMR number
RO030-015----

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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

In a peat bog which is now almost exhausted. A gravel roadway (Wth 3.5m; D 0.15m) was noted running WNW-ESE through the narrowest part of Mountdillion bog in Mountdillon townland (L c. 500m) in the 1940s and 1950s, c. 1m below the surface of the bog (NMI file). A sample has been radiocarbon dated to AD 887-1206 (1020±75BP; OxA-2448). There is no visible surface evidence of it today in Mountdillion, but sections of it have been traced at the E edge of the bog in Erris (RO030-022----). (Brindley & Lanting 1998, 55)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 11th April, 2011.

References

Brindley, A.L. and Lanting, J. 1998 Radiocarbon dating for Irish trackways. Journal of Irish Archaeology, 9, 45-68.

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

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