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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
54.57463, -8.10712
SMR number
DG103-090003-

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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 pasture, located on a terrace bordered on N side by a low rocky scarp (H 1-1.5m) which drops to a flat expanse of rush-grown ground stretching 100m N to the banks of a river. To S ground rises gradually in a series of limestone terraces. There is a spring well c. 10m to W at the base of the rocky scarp. This enclosure consists of a square area (9m E–W; 9m N–S) defined by a sod-covered stone bank/wall which is best preserved on the W and N sides (Wth 1.4m; int. H 0.85m; ext. H 0.2m at N). The S and E sides are much less substantial, with the E wall evident as a low, moss-covered rise (Wth 1m), and the S wall (Wth 0.6m; H 0.2m) consisting of little more than a gapped line of moss-covered stones. There is a break (Wth 1.6m) at the S end of the E wall. A slight surface depression is evident in the SW quadrant of the interior. The enclosure is conjoined at its NE corner with a possible house with a possible house (DG103-090002-). A cave adapted to serve as a souterrain (DG103-090001-) underlies the house and the enclosure. Two circular enclosures (DG103-088----; DG103-089----) are located upslope 100m to SW and 70m to SSW, respectively.

Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 25 November 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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