Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - road/trackway
Cloonburren, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonburren
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.30894, -8.05724
- SMR number
- RO056-009001-
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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
The Esker Riada, which carried the mythical road, an tSlí Mhór – the Great Road, from Tara to the West runs WSW from Cloonburren motte and bailey (RO056-010001-) with a surviving section of road (RO056-009----) at its W end. From a gap in the esker c. 1.2km WSW of the motte and at a gap in the esker a branch (RO056-009001-) turned N to Cloonburrren church site (RO056-007002-). From the gap in the esker it ran NNE (L c. 180m) and joined the present road (L c. 140m) from where it probably turned E (L c. 330m) and then N (L c. 500m) to join the laneway just E of the graveyard (RO056-007001-). Only a short section of a sunken way (Wth c. 2-8m; L c. 40m) survives at the S end, and the N end is visible as a cropmark of two linear ditch features placed c. 10m apart (L c. 200m) on aerial images (OSAP: 1995). Archaeological testing (01E0260) c. 90m to the W and c. 200m S of the church failed to produce any related material (Henry 2003a).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 11 December, 2015
References
OSAP - Ordnance Survey Aerial Photographs. Photographic collection. Ordnance Survey of Ireland. Dublin.
Henry, M. 2003a Cloonburren. No archaeological significance. in I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 2001: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 254-5, No. 1115. Bray, Wordwell
Nearby in the register
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- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.