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Enclosure - large enclosure

Derryphatten, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure - large enclosure, Derryphatten, 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
Derryphatten
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.74560, -8.17889
SMR number
RO028-157----

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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 circular enclosure (ext. diam. c. 130-145m) with a slight bank and trees on the perimeter on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and as a D-shaped embanked feature (dims c. 90m E-W; c. 85m N-S) truncated by a WNW-ESE field bank at S on the 1930 ed. Situated towards the bottom of a slight S-facing slope. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims c. 76m E-W; 67m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 3.6-3.8m; int. H 0.25-0.4m; ext. H 1-1.2m) SW-N-SE, with an outer rounded fosse (Wth of base 2m; D 1-1.1m) W-N and at E. It is defined by an E-W scarp (H 0.4m) at S, beyond which is a WNW-ESE field bank There are entrances at NW (Wth 2.5m) and NE (Wth 3m). The interior is overlain by a NNW-SSE field bank and drain.

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.

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
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