Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure - large enclosure
Creevyquin, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Creevyquin
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.63213, -8.15602
- SMR number
- RO040-027----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a gentle S-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 90m E-W; 85m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.9-4.2m; int. H 0.4-0.55m; ext. H 1.3-1.4m) NW-NE and by a scarp (H 0.3-0.4m) elsewhere, with a rounded fosse (Wth of base 2m; D 0.55-0.85m) WNW-NNW. It is overlain by a NNE-SSW field bank towards the perimeter at NW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.