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Ford

Correenbeg, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ford, Correenbeg, 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
Correenbeg
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
53.28162, -8.15016
SMR number
RO056-027001-

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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

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

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

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