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Enclosure

Farnaght, County Leitrim, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Farnaght, 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
Farnaght
County
Leitrim
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
53.87216, -7.82559
SMR number
LE036-021002-

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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

Situated on a rise in a low-lying, undulating landscape. The graveyard (LE036-021001-) is with a subcircular enclosure (int. dims 85m N-S; 69m E-W) defined by a masonry wall NW-SE and by an earthen bank topped with a collapsed stone wall elsewhere. It has headstones dating from the 18th century. Archaeological supervision (00E0867) of the replacement of the perimeter with a masonry wall NE-SE demonstrated that it was a slight earth and stone bank and the stones had been thrown up from inside. However, it produced no dateable material (Meenan 2001, 2002).

Compiled by Michael Moore

Date of upload: 18 October 2010
Amended: 7 January 2020

References

Meenan, R. 2001 Archaeological Supervision at Farnaght, Co. Leitrim. August – December, 2000. Licence No. 00E0867. Unpublished report, Author

Meenan, R. 2002 Farnaght: Graveyard. in I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 2000: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 187-8, No. 564. Bray, Wordwell

Nearby in the register

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

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