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Road - road/trackway

Milltown (Athlone South By.),Skeavally,Boleyduff, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Road - road/trackway, 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
Milltown (Athlone South By.),Skeavally,Boleyduff
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
53.44076, -8.16582
SMR number
RO048-097003-

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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 as a laneway (L c. 900m) on the 1837 ed. Of the OS 6-inch map, and rising from the S up a S-facing slope to a point where the wayside cross (RO048-117----) is situated just to its W and the road begins to descend to the N. From the S to where the cross is situated the road is a country lane (Wth 2m) with grass margins (Wth 1.6m) bordered by drystone walls. N of the cross it is a grass-covered area (Wth 9m; L c. 100m) bordered by a drystone wall and townland boundary with Skeavally at E and the grass-covered remnants of a wall (Wth 0.5m; H 0.5m) at W. It ends abruptly at the E-W townland boundary and drystone wall with Cuilleenoolagh (RO048-098----) at N.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Nearby in the register

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

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