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House - indeterminate date

Doonkelly, County Leitrim, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of House - indeterminate date, Doonkelly, County Leitrim, 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
Doonkelly
County
Leitrim
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.28993, -8.29986
SMR number
LE010-076----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1869 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1869 · Ireland. (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

Situated on NW facing slope of rising land inupland mountain pasture.One of a group of 5 hut sites (LE010-077/078/079/081) in close proximity to each other.The remains of grass-covered foundations of a subrectangular area (int. dims. 6.5m; 2.4m) which is orientated along the slope of the land on which it is situated.There are nearby field walls (wall T 0.6m) and several large field clearance cairns in close proximity which is all suggestive of an 18th century clustered upland settlement in the form of a clochan with associated outbuildings.

Date of upload: 14 April, 2016

Nearby in the register

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

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