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Ecclesiastical enclosure

Ballaghcullia,Ballynahowna, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ecclesiastical enclosure, Ballaghcullia, Ballynahowna, 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
Ballaghcullia,Ballynahowna
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.84694, -8.37419
SMR number
RO015-047003-

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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

Possibly an early ecclesiastical site identified by J. O'Donovan as Cill Maolan (O'Flanagan 1931, vol. 1, 41), and situated on a slight E-facing slope. Subcircular grass-covered area (int. dims 96m N-S; 83m E-W) defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 4-5m; int. H 0.3-0.6m; ext. H 0.1m at W to 1m at E) which is truncated at N by an E-W field wall and townland boundary with Ballynahowna (L 40m), but nothing survives N of this boundary. The enclosure is overlain by the field system (RO015-047007-).

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 August 2010

References

Martin, E. 1992 Bellanagare. Journal of the Roscommon Historical and Archaeological Society, vol. 4, 18-19.

O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1931 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Roscommon collected during the progress of the
Ordnance Survey in 1837. Bray.

Nearby in the register

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

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