Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Settlement cluster
Gorttoose, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gorttoose
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.76353, -8.01300
- SMR number
- RO030-020----
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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
Historical research and geophysical prospection identified a late 18th or early 19th-century settlement, which is marked as a small clustered village on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Excavation (96E0073) recovered over 6000 artifacts including locally-made redwares. There were also structural remains relating to the post-famine period. (Orser 1997a, b)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Orser, C.E. 1997a Gorttoose. Late eighteenth/early nineteenth-century agricultural village: head-tenant homesite. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1996: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 95, no. 332. Bray. Wordwell.
Orser, C.E. 1997b Archaeology and nineteenth-century rural life in county Roscommon. Archaeology Ireland 11 (1), 14-17.
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