Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - road/trackway
Gortaphuill (athlone North By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortaphuill (athlone North By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.48166, -8.20334
- SMR number
- RO047-015006-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
On a gentle E-facing slope. A stone walled road (RO047-015006-) (Wth c. 5m) defined by stone wall spreads (Wth c. 2m) approaches the cashel rath (RO047-015003-) from the S (L. c. 30m), circumvents it S-WNW and continues N (L. c. 50m). Another road approaches the rath from the ENE, but there is no evidence that it communicates with the other raod..
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.