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Enclosure - large enclosure

Coollusty, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure - large enclosure, Coollusty, 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
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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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

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

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

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