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Road - gravel/stone trackway - peatland

Kilbarry, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Road - gravel/stone trackway - peatland, Kilbarry, 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
Kilbarry
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.77385, -7.90452
SMR number
RO030-017----

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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

Emerging from a bog and rising up the S-facing slope of the slight E-W ridge on which Kilbarry church (RO024-016001-) is situated. Running NE-SW (L c. 600m) down the side of the ridge, it is known as the 'Saint's Road' and its course is known locally as a direct route between Kilbarry church and the RC church of Whitehall where St. Barry's Boat (RO030-007----) is kept. At the bottom of the slope it proceeds N (L c. 300m) on the E side of a N-S field bank where it is barely noticeable at the S end as a slight berm (Wth c. 3-5m), before swinging NE across fields (L c. 450m) to meet the public road c. 80m W of the graveyard (RO024-016002-). It is reputed locally to have a metalled surface that can be detected in parched conditions. Archaeological testing (16E0174) by A. Wallace just to the NW at a point where the old road approaches the E-W public road produced no related material (excavations.ie 2016:857).

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Amended: 20 October 2021

Nearby in the register

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

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