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Enclosure

Carrickmore, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Carrickmore, 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
Carrickmore
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.95787, -8.26128
SMR number
RO006-128----

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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

Visible on aerial photographs (OS 1, 3322), and situated in a fold of the gentle N-facing slope of a ridge. This is a rectangular grass-covered area (dims 31.4m N-S; 27.6m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.05-0.65m) at N and S and a moat or ditch (Wth of top 4.8-7.5m; D 0.5-0.6m) at E and W. Archaeological testing (19E0276) by A. Wallace and N. Fitch on the line of a water-pipe excavated a large area (dims c. 35m E-W; c. 10m N-S) including sections through the ditch at W (Wth 2.45m; max. D 0.75m) and E (Wth 2.2m; max. D 0.9m), but the two fills in the W and the three in the E ditches were sterile. There was a small bank (Wth 1.9-2m; int. H 0.15m) inside the W ditch, and there were nine irregularly spaced post-holes in the interior. A burnt spread (dims 1.55m x 0.9m; max. D 0.21m) inside the W bank produced a C14 date of 4344-4234 cal. BC, which is probably the only reliable dating evidence. A barbed-and-tanged arrowhead, recovered in the initial clean-back of the top of the ditch at W, and two flint flakes were the only artefacts recovered (excavations.ie 2019:730). (Fitch and Wallace 2020)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 29th September, 2010
Amended: 5 August 2021

References

Fitch, N. and Wallace, A. 2020 Final Report on Archaeological Excavation at (RO006-128----) Moated Site / Square enclosure at Carrickmore, Boyle, Co. Roscommon. Licence: 190276. Unpublished report, Atlantic Archaeology

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

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