Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hilltop enclosure
Mullaghnashee, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mullaghnashee
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.84210, -8.48701
- SMR number
- RO014-078001-
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
Visible as a feature on aerial photograph (GSIAP: M 652) around the S end of the NW-SE ridge of Fairymount Hill. Oval area (dims c. 180m N-S; c. 90m E-W) defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 1.8-3.2m; int. H 0.1-0.2m; ext. H 0.5-1.4m) S-NW and NE-E (Wth 2m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.9m), but it is replaced by a wall (Wth 0.9m; int. H 0.1m) on the outer edge of a rock outcrop face (H 0.45m) N-NE. It has been removed by a water tank NW-N and by a quarry E-S. There is no visible entrance, but old field walls visible as grass-covered stone spreads (Wth 0.8m; H 0.2m) are attached to the perimeter at E and SW. Although the name suggests the presence of a mound (RO014-078002-) there are no internal features visible and there is no record of one. Cairn (RO014-066----) is c. 250m to the NW, and hut site (RO014-068----) is c. 150m to the E.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
GSIAP - Geological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1973). Geological Survey. Beggars Bush, Haddington Road, Dublin 4.
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.