Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hilltop enclosure
Caldragh (roscommon By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caldragh (roscommon By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.81114, -8.14074
- SMR number
- RO023-062----
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 subrectangular embanked enclosure (ext. dims c. 95m NW-SE; c. 80m NE-SW) with the perimeter missing S-W on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and as a subcircular field (diam. c. 80m) on the 1914 ed. Situated just off the crest of the W end of an E-W ridge on the S-facing slope. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 90m NW-SE; 80m NE-SW) defined by an earthen bank at NW (Wth 3.8m; int. H 0.9m; ext. H 0.4m) which has been incorporated into overgrown field banks NW-ENE and ESE-S. The monument is truncated by N-S field banks at E and W.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hilltop enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.