Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ardkeenagh (plunkett), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardkeenagh (plunkett)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.77197, -8.21598
- SMR number
- RO028-031001-
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
Towards the bottom of an E-facing slope at the NE edge of field system (RO028-025001-). Rectangular grass-covered platform (dims 28m NW-SE; 21m NE-SW) defined by scarps (max. H 0.7m). There is no visible fosse or entrance, and the N corner is truncated by an E-W field bank. There is a house-site (RO028-031003-) (int. dims 7m E-W; 2m N-S) defined by low banks (Wth 1.2m; H 0.2m) at N and S and scarps (H 0.2m) at E and W immediately outside the perimeter at NE. Rath (RO028-029001-) is c. 120m to the WSW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.