Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure - large enclosure
Ardnagowna,carrownurlar (roscommon By. ), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardnagowna,carrownurlar (roscommon By. )
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.84616, -8.16850
- SMR number
- RO016-132----
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
Marked as a D-shaped enclosure (dims. c. 80m E-W; c. 50m N-S) truncated at N by an E-W field bank and townland boundary with Ardnagowna on the 1837 and 1914 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a slight E-facing slope. Described as a semicircular area (diam. 77m E-W) defined by a gapped earthen bank E-S-W and an E-W field wall at N, with a causeway entrance (Wth 2m) at E (Gannon 1972). It is not now visible at ground level in pasture, although a fosse is visible on OSI images (2005). Rath (RO016-133----) is c. 200m to the SW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
OSAP - Ordnance Survey Aerial Photographs. Photographic collection. Ordnance Survey of Ireland. Dublin.
Gannon, A. 1972 Archaeological survey of Roscommon. Unpublished typed index cards prepared for Roscommon County Council.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 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.