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Ecclesiastical enclosure

Attirory, County Leitrim, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ecclesiastical enclosure, Attirory, 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
Attirory
County
Leitrim
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.93932, -8.07455
SMR number
LE031-039003-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Located towards the top of a prominent drumlin. The burial ground (LE031-039----) is at the centre of a grass-covered circular earthen enclosure (diam. c. 150m) defined by an earthen bank that is best preserved at NW (Wth of base 3.5m; H 0.65m) with a slight external fosse (Wth 2.5m), but it is reduced to a scarp (max. H 1m E-SE) over much of the perimeter elsewhere. There is no evidence of a church (LE031-039001-), but there is a burial ground (LE031-039001-) within the enclosure where the bullaun stone (LE031-039002-) was re-discovered. Archaeological testing (03E1788) c. 40m to the NNE of the perimeter at the closest point produced no related material (Read 2006), but archaeological testing (18E0707) in the SW quadrant identified a ditch (Wth 4-7m) on the line of the perimeter. Other features in this area were post-holes and pits containing animal bones and metal slag, suggesting that this part of the enclosure was devoted to industrial activity (McHugh 2019; exavations.ie 2019:075). The area was completely stripped in May 2020 under the same licence (McHugh 2021), revealing the ditch (L 33m; Wth of top 3.1-3.5m; D 0.65m plus) with three upper fills of clay with stones. The development site was subsequently back-filled, the fosse being preserved beneath a geotextile protective layer.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 11 May, 2015
Amended: 15 October, 2019, 10 January 2020, 3 August 2021

References

McHugh, T. 2019 Archaeological testing at Attirory, Co. Leitrim. First Part, Licence No. 18E0707. Unpublished report, Fadó Archaeology

Read, C. 2006 Attirory, Carrick-on-Shannon: no archaeological significance. in I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 2003: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 298, No. 1093. Bray, Wordwell

McHugh, T. 2021 Archaeological Testing for a Residential Development at Attirory, Co. Leitrim. Licence: 18E0707. Unpublished report, Fadó Archaeology

Nearby in the register

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

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