Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Moigh Lower, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moigh Lower
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.70317, -8.72108
- SMR number
- RO032-066----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: 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 bay at the S end of a flat-bottomed N-S valley. This is a D-shaped grass-covered mound of broken and burnt stone (dims 11m NE-SW; 10.2m NW-SE; H 0.5m) with an indentation for a trough (dims 3.4m NW-SE; 1.2m NE-SW) on the NW side. Excavation (97E0271) revealed two wood-lined troughs (Coombs and Robinson 1998).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Coombs, D.G. and Robinson M.E. 1998 Moigh Lower, burnt stone mound. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1997: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 152, No. 465. Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
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- Hut siteunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.