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Enclosure

Carroweighter, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Carroweighter, 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
Carroweighter
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.67559, -8.33805
SMR number
RO034-112003-

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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

Located on a SE-facing slope, with the round tower of Oran (RO034-080003-) c. 200m to the SSW. Geophysical survey (11R0074) of possible routes for a re-directed section of the N60 at Oran identified a number of possible enclosures defined by ditches (Gimson and Regan 2011). Archaeological testing (11E0247) disproved many of the anomalies, but a group of four features in Field 2 proved to be archaeological, and elements of the field system (RO034-081003-) may extended into the area. This enclosure (3) is largely outside the test corridor but its extent is identified in the geophysical survey. It is a subcircular or subrectangular area (dims c. 50m x c. 50m) defined by a shallow ditch or slot trench (Wth 0.3m; max. D 0.25m) and it may be part of the field system. (O’Hara 2011, 5-6)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 3 December, 2014

References

O'Hara, R. 2011 N60 Oran (Carroweighter) Road Improvement Scheme. Stage (1) Test Excavation and Survey Services. Licence No. 11E0274. Unpublished report, Archer Heritage Planning

Gimson, H. and Regan, D. 2011 N60 Oran (Carroweighter) Realignment. Archaeological Consultancy Services Contract Stage (1) 1 Geophysical Survey. Licence No. 11R0074. Unpublished report, Earthsound Archaeological Geophysics

Nearby in the register

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

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