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Embanked enclosure

Ballinphuill (Boyle By.), County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Embanked enclosure, Ballinphuill, County Roscommon, 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
Ballinphuill (Boyle By.)
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.96147, -8.32080
SMR number
RO005-041----

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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 slight ridge in a low-lying landscape surrounded by hills. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 52.5m N-S; 49.5m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 8-10m; int. H 1-1.2m; ext. H 0.9-1.1m). There are entrances at NE (Wth 14m) and SW (Wth 18.5m), which allowed an old stream, visible as a band of rushes (Wth 6m), to flow through the interior. A N-S field bank and drain overlie the E part of the site, distorting the bank to its E. (Stout 1991, 283; Condit 1993, 16)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 August 2010

References

Condit, T. 1993 Ritual enclosures near Boyle, Co. Roscommon. Archaeology Ireland 7 (1), 14-16.

Stout, G. 1991 The embanked enclosures of the Boyne region. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 91C, 245-84.

Nearby in the register

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

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