Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure - large enclosure
Coollusty, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coollusty
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.55566, -8.23056
- SMR number
- RO041-078----
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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
Marked as a large circular enclosure (diam. c. 90m) on the 1837 and 1928 eds of the OS 6-inch map, with an entrance at NE on the latter, and situated on a rise in a fairly level landscape. It was described in 1956 as a D-shaped area (diam. c. 100m N-S) with a straight side (L c. 67m) at W defined by an earthen bank (at N: Wth c. 3m; int. H c. 0.9m; ext. H c. 1.8m) with no visible fosse, and with an entrance (Wth c. 9m) at E (SMR file). It is not now visible at ground level in pasture.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 3 January 2013
References
SMR file - Sites and monuments record files in the National Monuments Service, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Inscribed stone (present location)under 1 mi
- Cross - Wayside crossunder 1 mi
- Inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.