Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure - large enclosure
Errew (Carrigallen By.), County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Errew (Carrigallen By.)
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.95437, -7.62497
- SMR number
- LE034-006001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
- 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 at the crest of and on an E-facing slope overlooking Lough Gulladoo, also known as Errew Lough. This is a grass-covered oval area (dims c. 95m NE-SW; c. 75m NW-SE) defined by a stone wall on top of an earthen bank (at N: Wth 6.6m; int. H 1.3m; ext. H 1.4m). Against the perimeter at E is the rectangular burial ground (LE0334-006----). The enclosure is regarded in the folk tradition as a ‘fort’ (IFC: Schools’ Collection, vol. 0228, 186, 196).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 9 December, 2019
References
IFC Schools' MSS: Irish Folklore Commission Schools' Manuscripts. Department of Folklore. University College, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.