Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic structure
Knockanyconor, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockanyconor
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.54448, -8.05429
- SMR number
- RO045-053002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
On a low-lying undulating karst landscape. Just to the W of portal tomb (RO045-053001-) is a megalithic cist (dims c. 2m E-W; c. 1m N-S) consisting of a rectangular roofstone (dims 2.5m E-W; 1.8m N-S; T 0.7m) resting on at least four boulders (dims c. 0.5m x 0.5m; H 0.5m). The barrow (RO045-054---) is c. 40m to the SW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - portal tombunder 1 mi
- Barrow - stepped barrowunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.