Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Coolmeen (athlone North By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolmeen (athlone North By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.60334, -8.26146
- SMR number
- RO041-010----
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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
Visible on aerial photographs (GSIAP: M 156-7), and situated on the gentle S-facing slope of a NW-SE ridge of karst. An area of about 6 ha (c. 18 acres) contains relict field walls visible as stone spreads (Wth c. 1m) which are generally aligned N-S. Archaeological testing (02E1839) by the roadside at the W edge failed to produce any related archaeological material (Read 2004n).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 21st January, 2011.
References
GSIAP - Geological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1973). Geological Survey. Beggars Bush, Haddington Road, Dublin 4.
Read, C. 2004n Coolmeen: no archaeological significance. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2002: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 453, No. 1599. Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.