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Enclosure - large enclosure

Corrasluastia, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure - large enclosure, Corrasluastia, 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
Corrasluastia
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.73032, -8.67776
SMR number
RO025-021001-

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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)
  • 1857 · 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

Towards the bottom of a gentle E-facing slope, and first identified by Gannon (1972). Oval or D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 71m N-S; 63m E-W) defined by a low earthen bank (Wth 3.5m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.6m) NW-N and a scarp (H 0.2m) SE-SW, with traces of a fosse (Wth of top 3.2-3.8m; Wth of base 1.8-2m; int. D 0.2-0.3m; ext. D 0.2-0.3m) SW-N-SE. An original entrance is not identified. Two house sites (RO025-021002-; RO025-021003-) (ext. dims 4m E-W; 2.5m N-S: 12m N-S; 11m E-W) visible as grass-covered stony platforms (max. H 0.8m) are at the centre. The monument is overlain by a N-S field wall towards the perimeter at W and an E-W wall towards the perimeter at S, while a N-S field wall towards the perimeter at E has been removed.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Gannon, A. 1972 Archaeological survey of Roscommon. Unpublished typed index cards prepared for Roscommon County Council.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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