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Enclosure

Knockadangan, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Knockadangan, 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
Knockadangan
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.56860, -8.19535
SMR number
RO041-139----

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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

In pasture. Reported by Jean-Charles Caillere. Visible on Google Earth aerial imagery (16-3-2011) as a circular enclosure (est. diam. c. 40m) defined by a low scarp. Also visible outside the enclosure at NW and ENE are the cropmarks of two possible, concentric fosses enclosing the site A ringfort (RO041-056----) lies c. 75m to the SW.

See attached image: RO041-139----_01 Google Earth aerial image, 16-3-2011.

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy

Date of upload: 1 February 2023

Nearby in the register

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

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