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Enclosure

Carns, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Carns, 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
Carns
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.75377, -8.25515
SMR number
RO028-075009-

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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 SE-facing slope at the E end of the Carnfree ridge. Within the ecclesiastical enclosure (RO028-075004-). Remote sensing (06R0081) has recovered evidence of an earlier bivallate enclosure (ext. diam. c. 100m; int. diam. c. 75m) pre-dating the ecclesiastical enclosure and within it. It surrounds the figure-of-eight enclosure (RO028-075010-). A section of the outermost ditch (Wth 3.3m; D 1.6m) of the bivallate enclosure was excavated (07E0769) at S. (Shanahan 2007, Shanahan and McNeary 2009)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 13th September, 2010

References

Shanahan, B. 2007 Archaeological excavations at Carns, Co. Roscommon. Preliminary report. Discovery Programme. Unpublished report, National Monuments Service, Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government. Licence no. 07E0769.

Shanahan, B. and R. McNeary 2009 Carns townland, Co. Roscommon: excavations by the Medieval Rural Settlement Project in 2006. In C. Corlett and M. Potterton (eds.), Rural Settlement in medieval Ireland in the light of recent archaeological excavations, 125-37. Dublin. Wordwell.

Nearby in the register

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

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