Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Usna, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Usna
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.96210, -8.17450
- SMR number
- RO006-172----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Marked only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated towards the bottom of the E-facing slope of a hill within a golf course. Oval grass-covered area (dims. c. 48m NE-SW; c. 33m NW-SE) defined by a scarp (max. H 1.4m) NE-S and as a scarp down to the interior (H 0.5m) elsewhere. There is no visible fosse or entrance. Rath (RO006-169----) is c. 200m to the W. Wedge tomb (RO006-171----) is c. 80m to the NE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.