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Ecclesiastical enclosure

Glebe (Rathcline By., Rathcline ED), County Longford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ecclesiastical enclosure, Glebe, County Longford, 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
Glebe (Rathcline By., Rathcline ED)
County
Longford
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.64455, -8.00387
SMR number
LF017-013003-

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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

In pasture on a W-facing slope overlooking Lough Ree. This large enclosure (c. 175m WNW-ESE; c. 140m NNE-SSW) is defined by two low, widely spaced banks of earth and stone. The inner bank (Wth 5.5m; H 0.5m) survives from W-WNW-NW. It has been modified and incorporated into a field boundary at WSW. The distance between this bank and the outer bank is c. 12m. The latter bank, which has also been modified and incorporated into a field boundary, is similar in morphology to the inner bank and it survives from WSW-W-NW. Elsewhere both banks have been levelled but their outlines are identifiable. The enclosure is divided into unequal portions by a NNW-SSW field boundary that marks the boundary between Glebe and Rathcline townlands. Centrally located within it, in Glebe, is a late-medieval church (LF017-013001-) and graveyard (LF017-013004-). (ITA Survey 1944; Cahill 1984, 184-5)

Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan, Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 4 June 2013

Nearby in the register

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

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