Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - road/trackway
Killoscully, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killoscully
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cromwells Road
- Coordinates
- 52.77096, -8.32625
- SMR number
- TN032-001001-
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
Situated on a NW-SE ridge of ground in a mountainous area. A wide metalled roadway (Wth 20m max.) known as 'Cromwell's Road' which has been reused in places as a modern road and elsewhere survives as a grass-covered metalled roadway. It is particularly well preserved where it follows the line of a field ditch on a NW-SE axis. Continuation of Roadway which is marked in SMR as TN026-055 and as TN031-042
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Stone sculptureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.