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Concentric enclosure

Creeve (Roscommon By., Rossmore ED), County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Concentric enclosure, Creeve, 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
Creeve (Roscommon By., Rossmore ED)
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.83295, -8.23393
SMR number
RO022-030001-

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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

Visible on aerial photograph (OS: 4/2058), and situated at the crest of the S-facing slope of a broad hill. Subrectangular grass-covered area (dims 30m N-S; 9m E-W at N to 24m E-W at S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.3m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.5m) at N, a scarp down to the interior (H 0.5m) at W, and an external scarp (H 0.5m) at S, but the perimeter at E cannot be traced. There is a hut-site (RO022-030002-) (int. diam. 3.7m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 1.2-1.6m; max. H 0.3m) at the centre.
The enclosure is towards the E edge of a subrecatangular enclosure (dims c. 70m E-W; c. 70m N-S) defined by an earthen bank at N (Wth 4m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.5m) and SW-W, and elsewhere by low scarps which are intermittently visible. Rath (RO016-121----) is c. 170m to the NNW.

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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