Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
Carrowmurragh, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowmurragh
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.48494, -8.01891
- SMR number
- RO049-014----
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5 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)
- 1857 · 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 level landscape close to the W shore of Lough Ree. A rectangular stoney pit (dims. c. 2m N-S; c. 1m E-W plus) was partly exposed in test excavations for a roadway into a housing estate. It produced medieval floor tiles and animal bone and is preserved beside the roadway. (O'Carroll 2006)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
O’Carroll, E. 2006 Carrowmurragh: medieval. in I. Bennett Excavations 2003. Summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 419, No.1554. Bray.
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.