Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ford
Correenbeg, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Correenbeg
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.28162, -8.15016
- SMR number
- RO056-027001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
There is a ford across a N-S section of the River Suck at the point where it turns E to meet the River Shannon c. 6.5km to the E, and on the line of the Esker Riada that was utilised by the Slí Mór. The ford could have played a role in the Battle of Aughrim (GA087-127----) in 1691 and was probably protected at that time by the earthwork (RO056-027002-) c. 90m to the S. The ford is a broad, shallow pool with islands that was dredged in 1989. A collection of artefacts (E000537) dating from the Early Bronze Age to the Middle Ages and which is now in NMI, was recovered by local divers prior to the drainage operations. (Kelly 1990)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Kelly, E.P. 1990 Correen Ford, Correenbeg. Ford. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1989: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 44, No. 79. Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Fordunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.