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Metalworking site

Cloonown, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Metalworking site, Cloonown, 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
Cloonown
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.36906, -7.94250
SMR number
RO055-003006-

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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

Archaeological testing (11E0360) uncovered evidence of metalworking c. 50m outside the line of the ecclesiastical enclosure (RO055-003005-) at Cloonown, to the NW. It consisted of three areas of intense buring in a confined area of c. 8m x 8m, with iron slag and a piece of copper alloy. A ditch (Wth 2.5m; D c. 0.8m) was uncovered (L 43m plus) running NW-SE parallel with the publc road just to the W, but the ditch turns N to avoid the metalworking area. (Quinn 2011)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 15 February, 2012

References

Quinn, B. 2011 Archaeological assessment. Cloonown Community Project. Licence No. 11E0360. Unpublished report, Moore Group.

Nearby in the register

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

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