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Megalithic structure

Carricknagat, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Megalithic structure, Carricknagat, 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
Carricknagat
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Druids Altar
Latest-edition OS map
Dolmen (Site of)
Coordinates
53.51516, -8.22164
SMR number
RO044-058----

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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

Marked on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as 'Druid's Altar, and described on the 1915 ed. as the site of a Dolmen. It is situated on a low-lying, level landscape. It was described c. 1910 as the site of a 'Druid's Altar' (OS Name Book), and later described as a collection of boulders in a field wall (Gannon 1972). These have since been removed and replaced by a modern replica of a megalithic tomb (H c. 1m). Archaeological testing (06E0750) immediately to the S produced no related archaeological material (Morahan 2010b).

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 August 2010

References

Gannon, A. 1972 Archaeological survey of Roscommon. Unpublished typed index cards prepared for Roscommon County Council.

OSNB 25-inch. Ordnance Survey Name Books compiled in the course of the 1:2500 survey of Ireland. National Archives of Ireland.

Morahan, L 2010b Carricknagat. No archaeological significance. in I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 2007: summary accounts of arc archaeological excavations in Ireland, 410, No. 1484. Dublin, Wordwell

Nearby in the register

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

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