Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Churchfield, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Churchfield
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.03921, -7.89683
- SMR number
- LE024-024003-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (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 in gently undulating lowland c. 150m W of a bay (max. dims c. 150m N-S; c. 130m E-W at N) at the SW angle of Lough Nacarriga. Coolnakill church (LE024-023001-) is towards the W end of a grass-covered oval enclosure (dims 75m E-W; 52m N-S) defined by an earth and stone bank (at S: Wth 3.5m; H 1.1m) and hedge with an entrance (Wth 3.5m) at SSE, but there is no evidence of burial.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 13 January, 2017
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.