Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Elphin, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Elphin
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.84893, -8.17799
- SMR number
- RO016-130----
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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 small feature (diam. c. 10-15m) on the 1837 and 1914 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a rise of an E-facing slope, c. 140m W of Kinard House. Circular grass-covered but poached area (diam. 8.5m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth. 4.4-4.8m; int. H 0.25m at N to 0.8m at W; ext. H 1.3m-1.8m) with mature deciduous trees on the perimeter and an entrance (Wth 1.8m) at NNE. It may be a tree-ring.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Icehouseunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.