Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ross More East, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ross More East
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.81541, -8.21185
- SMR number
- RO022-068001-
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
Visible on aerial photograph (OS: 4 2052-3), and situated on a SE-facing slope overlooking Lough O'Donnellan, a sub-oval lake (dims c. 160m NW-SE; c. 100m NE-SW), which is c. 100m to the SE. This is a rectangular grass-covered area (dims 22m E-W; 22m N-S) defined by earthen banks (Wth 2m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.5m). There is no visible entrance, and it is bisected diagonally by a NE-SW field wall while its N and E sides are incorporated into relict field banks.
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.