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Earthwork

Skeavally, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Earthwork, Skeavally, 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
Skeavally
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.44020, -8.15835
SMR number
RO048-119008-

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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

On a SE-facing slope, c. 80m WNW of fortified house (RO048-119001-) and overlooking it. It is visible on aerial photographs (CUCAP: BDO 35, 36) from the 1970s. This is a rectangular platform (dims of top 19m NE-SW; 14m NW-SE; H c. 2m) with stone facing on all sides except the NW where there is a fosse. Its NW and SE edges were overlain by stone banks. It may have been a gun-platform, but it has been removed since 1995.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 August 2010

References

CUCAP - Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photographs. Unit for Landscape Modelling, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. See:https://www.cambridgeairphotos.com

Nearby in the register

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

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