Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Mollyroe, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mollyroe
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.66455, -7.76128
- SMR number
- LF019-035----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In level, well-drained pasture. Depicted as a raised oval enclosure on the 1913 edition of the OS 6-inch map with a central scarp running NNW-SSE, indicating that the SW half of the interior was higher than that of the NE half. A report in 1976 (SMR file) noted a segment of an irregular bank of earth and stone (Wth 3-4m; H 1-1.25m), overgrown with briars and bushes, with fragmentary traces of an external fosse on its SW side. The monument has since been levelled and is not visible at ground level.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 28 November 2012
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - bowl-barrowunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.