Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Fairymount, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fairymount
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.69093, -8.11601
- SMR number
- RO036-072----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 towards the bottom of the SW-facing slope of a hill on what was once demesne land of Fairymount Castle, which was c. 250m to the NNE. A grass-covered oval enclosure (dims c. 60m NW-SE; c. 45m NE-SW) defined by an earthen bank separated by a fosse from an outer bank SE-W is visible on Google Earth (01/03/2010). It is traversed by an E-W field bank with trees N of the centre, and was first reported by Jean Charles Caillère.
See the attached enhanced aerial view from Google Earth
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload; 11 March 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Inscribed stone (present location)under 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.