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Enclosure

Cloonshanville, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Cloonshanville, 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
Cloonshanville
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.86879, -8.39355
SMR number
RO015-028----

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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

Marked only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a sub-triangular hachured feature (dims c. 85m N-S; c. 80m E-W) with the apex at N, and situated on a level landscape. Sub-triangular grass-covered area (dims 75m N-S; c. 70m E-W at S) with some bushes on the perimeter at E defined by scarps (H 0.45m at W to 0.9m at ENE), with traces of a bank (Wth 3.7m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.5m) separated by a fosse (Wth of base 3m ext. D 0.4m) from an outer bank (Wth 4m; ext. H 0.8m) E-SE. There is no visible entrance, and farm buildings impinge on the perimeter at NW.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Nearby in the register

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

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