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Linear earthwork

Carrowntlieve,Cuilnakeava,Carrownurlar (Athlone North By.), County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Linear earthwork, 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
Carrowntlieve,Cuilnakeava,Carrownurlar (Athlone North By.)
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.50402, -8.20787
SMR number
RO044-061----

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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

Visible on aerial photographs (GSIAP: M 472-3) as a linear fosse (Wth c. 10m; L c. 700m) on the S side of a WNW-ESE earthen bank and townland boundary with Carrowntleive, which is also the boundary between the parishes of Tisara to the N and Taghboy to the S. Situated on a low-lying, gently undulating landscape. An earthen bank (Wth 3.5-4m; H 1.3-2.2m) and hedge survives, but there is no evidence of a fosse, although it was known locally. It is continued to the SE by NW-SE Lough Croan (L c. 3km).

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 August 2010

References

GSIAP - Geological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1973). Geological Survey. Beggars Bush, Haddington Road, Dublin 4.

Nearby in the register

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

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