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Enclosure - large enclosure

Lissacurkia (Roscommon By.), County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure - large enclosure, Lissacurkia, 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
Lissacurkia (Roscommon By.)
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Embanked enclosure
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.76590, -8.24836
SMR number
RO028-080----

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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

Marked as a single embanked enclosure on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, but only in its complexity on the 1930 ed. It is situated towards the W edge of a broad plateau. It is a subcircular grass-covered area (dims 89m NE-SW; 80m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank with a hedge (Wth 4-5.8m; int. H 0.2-0.8m; ext. H 1.5-2m). There is an outer flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of top 5-7.7m; Wth of base 1.5-2m; D 0.3-0.5m) which is re-cut as a drain with an outer bank (Wth 3m; ext. H 0.3m) SW-NW. The interior is cut by a NE-SW drain with banks on either side and there is a drain with two banks running SE from it to the perimeter. The perimeter is reduced to a fosse (Wth of top 9m; D 0.3m) N-NE, and a straight field bank provides the perimeter NE-E. An entrance through the inner (Wth1.4m) and outer (Wth 1.5m) banks and causeway (Wth 3.5m) at SW may be modern. Rath (RO028-081----) is c. 80m to the SE.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Nearby in the register

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

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