Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Dangan (king), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dangan (king)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.89768, -8.02506
- SMR number
- RO011-143----
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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 as a circular enclosure with trees on the perimeter (diam. c. 35m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on the SE-facing slope of a broad low hill. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 29m N-S; 28m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.2m at S to 5.4m at NE; int. H 0.25m at S to 0.9m at NW; ext. H 0.6m at NW to 1m at S) S-E and scarp (H 0.6-1.05m) elsewhere, with trees planted on the perimeter. There is no visible fosse or entrance, and a NW-SE laneway to Dangan House c. 50m to the NW skirts the perimeter at NE. It may be a tree-ring.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.