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Enclosure

Carns, County Roscommon, Ireland

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Townland
Carns
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.75391, -8.25513
SMR number
RO028-075010-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

On a SE-facing slope at the E end of the Carnfree ridge, and within the ecclesiastical enclosure (RO028-075004-). Remote sensing (06R81) has recovered evidence of an earlier bivallate enclosure (RO028-075009-) pre-dating the ecclesiastical enclosure and within it. This surrounds an enclosure (diam. c. 50m) which itself is attached in a figure-of-eight to a smaller enclosure (diam. c. 25m) which straddles its perimeter at NE. (Shanahan 2006, 6; Shanahan and McNeary 2009b)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 13th September, 2010.

References

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.

Shanahan, B. 2006 Recent research in Roscommon by the Discovery Programme's Medieval Rural Settlement Project. Bullitin of the Group for the Study of Historic Irish Settlement, No. 11, 1-9.

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