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Enclosure

Rockhill (Cavangarden ED), County Donegal, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Rockhill, County Donegal, 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
Rockhill (Cavangarden ED)
County
Donegal
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.57334, -8.10824
SMR number
DG103-087----

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 rough, stony pasture, straddles the gentle SE-facing slope of a low rise of limestone outcropping. Oval or oblong area (c. 14m NW–SE; 8m NE–SW) defined by remnants of a stone wall (Wth 1m; 0.3m). The wall appears as a low, gapped, moss-covered stone bank, barely discernible in parts. The interior is bisected centrally on a roughly E–W axis, by an irregular band of moss-covered stones but it is not clear if these represent a ruined wall or natural bedrock seam.
There is an enclosure (DG103-088----) 40m to NW and another enclosure (DG103-089----) located 25m to NE.

Attached image:
DG103-087----_01.JPG viewed from SE

Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 9 July 2015

Nearby in the register

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

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