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Enclosure

Ranelagh, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Ranelagh, 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
Ranelagh
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.65263, -8.19535
SMR number
RO039-102008-

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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

Situated on a gentle NE-facing slope. A multivallate enclosure is attached to Enclosure C of the concentric enclosure (RO039-102----) at NW. It was noted in the geophysical survey (15R0052) as three concentric ditches attaching to the fosse of Enclosure C of the concentric enclosure (Bonsall and Gimson 2015), although only a small area of the conjunction was within the road-take at the NE edge of the this enclosure. Through excavation (15E0136) it could be shown that the outermost of the three fosses (Wth 3m; max. D 2.5m) cut the fill of the fosse of Enclosure C, but the SW edge of this attached enclosure (int. dims c. 50m NE-SW; c. 30m NW-SE) is truncated at SW by a NW-SE road wall of the old N61. The fosses of two internal features also appear to attach to the fosse of Enclosure C. The outermost fosse has an entrance gap (Wth 3m) at NE, not far from the junction of the fosse with Enclosure C and the entrance to Enclosure C. Other small enclosures and what may be numerous pits to the E of the concentric enclosure are as yet unproven. (Delaney and Ní Cheallacháin 2017, 20, Fig. 3)

See the attached plan from (Delaney and Ní Cheallacháin 2017, Fig. 3

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 8 December 2020

References

Delaney, S. and Ní Cheallacháin, M. 2017 Preliminary Report on Excavations at Ranelagh 1, Co. Roscommon. Licence: 15E0136. Unpublished report, IAC Archaeology

Bonsall, J. and Gimson, H. 2015 N61 Coolteige (Phase 1) Road Project, County Roscommon Stage (i) Archaeological Geophysical Survey. Licence: 15R0052. 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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