Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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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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
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.
Nearby in the register
- Road - gravel/stone trackway - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Quarry1 mi
- Church2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.