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Settlement cluster

Gorttoose, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Settlement cluster, Gorttoose, 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
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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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

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.

Nearby in the register

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

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