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Concentric enclosure

Corracreigh, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Concentric enclosure, Corracreigh, 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
Corracreigh
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Embanked enclosure
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.80403, -8.19960
SMR number
RO022-075001-

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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

On a N-facing slope. Oval grass-covered area (dims 89m E-W; 66m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5m; H 0.2-0.3m) which is reduced to a low scarp (H 0.2-0.4m) at N and S. A rectangular enclosure (RO022-075002-) (dims 26m E-W; 17m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4m) at W and scarps elsewhere is attached to the inside of the perimeter at N, and a rectangular enclosure (RO022-075003-) with some bushes (dims 25m E-W; 24m N-S) defined by the base of a wall (Wth 1.5m) at W and scarps at N and S is attached to the inside of the perimeter at E. There is no identifiable entrance.
The oval enclosure is within a circular outer enclosure (diam. 177m E-W; 162m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5-7m; H 0.2-0.3m) N-W-SW, with slight traces of a fosse (Wth of top 7m; ext. D 0.1m) at S, and incorporated into a field bank SW-W but reduced to a slight scarp elsewhere. There are no identifiable entrances. Field system (RO022-074----) is c. 180m to the NE.

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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