Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Gorteencloogh Or Corra More, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gorteencloogh Or Corra More
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.57249, -8.27315
- SMR number
- RO041-043001-
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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 (OS 2 4261-2), and situated on the flood-plain of the SE-NW River Suck which is immediately to the N. Circular flat-topped grass-covered earthen mound (diam. of base 21.4m NW-SE; 20.5m NE-SW; diam. of top 9.1m NW-SE; 9.8m NE-SW; H 0.3-0.65m) with traces of a shallow fosse (Wth of base 2.2-3.4m; D 0.05-0.15m) ESE-SSW and WNW-NNW. There is a rectangular house site (RO041-043002-) (int. dims. 1.6m NE-SW; 1.5m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.3-2.8m; H 0.15m) on top of the mound.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
OSAP - Ordnance Survey Aerial Photographs. Photographic collection. Ordnance Survey of Ireland. Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.