Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Correenbeg, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Correenbeg
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.28071, -8.14883
- SMR number
- RO056-027002-
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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
On the E bank of a N-S section of the River Suck at the point where it turns E, and c. 90m S of Correenbig ford (RO0056-027001-). This is a raised rectangular, grass-covered area (dims 29m NW-SE; 8-12m NE-SW) defined by scarps (H 1m), with traces of a bank (Wth 6m; int. H 0.1m) on the NW and SE sides and backing onto the river at W. There is a shallow fosse (Wth of base 2-3m) at NE (D 0.1m) and SE (max. D 0.8m). It is known locally as 'the Soldiers Grave' (Kelly 1990), although it likely to be been a gun-platform protecting the ford.
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
- Fordunder 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.