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Enclosure

Caltragh Beg, County Longford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Caltragh Beg, 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
Caltragh Beg
County
Longford
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.60652, -7.93166
SMR number
LF021-031----

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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

On a gentle SE-facing slope in pasture. Described in 1975 (SMR file) as a roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 88m) divided by a NE-SW running field boundary. The enclosing element had been levelled to the N of the field boundary but to the S of it, it was defined by a bank of earth and stone and fragmentary traces of an external fosse from ENE-S-WSW. A series of low banks visible to the E appeared to be associated with it. Only the outline of the enclosing bank (Wth c. 4.5m; max. H 0.2m) is now visible. The ‘Caltragh’ element of the townland name, meaning old burying ground, may have been derived from this monument and could suggest the possibility that it may have been used for burial. The size and circularity of the enclosure is reminiscent of those found at ecclesiastical sites and the possibility that this is such cannot be ruled out entirely. That said, there is no surviving documentary evidence that links this monument with any ecclesiastical personage.

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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