Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - road/trackway
Dooherty, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dooherty
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.71161, -8.19259
- SMR number
- RO035-104002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
On a N-facing slope. A roadway defined by low earthen banks or scarps on either side extends N from rath (RO035-014002-) on aerial photograph (CUCAP: AJQ 99) (L c. 200m). A slightly sunken roadway (Wth c. 7m) defined by slight scarps (H 0.05-0.1m) survives (L c. 125m) as far as the NE-SW Strokestown to Four Mile House road (R368), beyond which the ancient road survives more robustly (L c. 55m) defined by earthen banks (Wth c. 2m; H 0.5m) until it reaches the low-lying ground of a SW-NE valley. Archaeological testing (04E1297) immediately to the E and S of the R368 produced no related material (Read 2007h).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
CUCAP - Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photographs. Unit for Landscape Modelling, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. See:https://www.cambridgeairphotos.com
Read, C. 2007h Dooherty. No archaeological significance. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2004: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 377, No. 1457. Dublin. Wordwell
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.