Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - road/trackway
Carrigans Upper, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrigans Upper
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.10306, -8.49109
- SMR number
- SL033-073001-
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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
In undulating pasture, on the E side of a road. This road is not visible at ground level. It is visible in an aerial photograph (GSIAP, G 267-8) as a curvilinear cropmark (L c. 300m) consisting of two narrow parallel lines of dark vegetation, c. 10m apart. The cropmark is parallel to the present road for most of its length but curves gently to the NE at its N end. It is crossed by another similar linear cropmark (L c. 400m NE-SW), the SW end of which joins the present road. No road is indicated on the 1838 or 1941 OS 6-inch map in the vicinity of these cropmarks so it is assumed that they represent a road or earthwork predating the 1838 OS 6-inch map but possibly much older. A circular enclosure (SL033-073002-) lies c. 100m to E.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005).
Date of upload: 18 January 2008
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.