Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballymagrorty Scotch, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymagrorty Scotch
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.55406, -8.12333
- SMR number
- DG103-073----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1881 map "Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1881 · Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 4. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, located on level ground broken by limestone bedrock on top of a broad hill, overlooked at NW by a higher ridge. On its NE-S side, the hill drops into a small valley with two interconnected lakes, known as Garvanagh Lough, from the S end of which a stream/drain flows, skirting the base of the hill at SW. This enclosure is not indicated on the 1836 OS 6-inch map but is indicated on the 1907 edition as a polygonal enclosure, bordered at E by a NW-SE field boundary. It consists of an oval area (39.5m NW-SE; 28m NE-SW) defined by a stone bank/ruined wall (Wth 2-3m; H 0.2-0.3m). The stone bank appears as a low, moss- and sod-covered rise from which stones protrude randomly. At NE-SE, it is incorporated into a later NW-SE field wall. Ruined field walls, on a NE-SW axis, also intersect with the enclosure at E and W. The interior of the enclosure is not raised above exterior ground level. It is relatively level but has an uneven surface broken by much moss-covered stone/karst, concentrated in a band extending through the W half. In the SE quadrant there is a shallow depression bordering the inner edge of the enclosing stone bank. There is another enclosure (DG103-074----) 16m to SE.
Attached image:
DG103-073----_01.JPG viewed from SE
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 20 May 2015
Nearby in the register
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- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
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- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.