Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hilltop enclosure
Moydow, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moydow
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.57446, -8.16506
- SMR number
- RO042-017001-
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
Visible as a feature on aerial photographs (GSIAP: M 153-4), and situated on top of Moydow Hill. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 68m E-W; c. 66m NW-SE) defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 2-3.7m; H 0.2-0.4m) with some outer facing stones SW-ENE, which is reduced to a slight scarp ENE-SE and removed elsewhere. Cairn (RO042-017003-) is at the centre, and a NE-SW field wall of field system (RO042-017002-) overlies the interior SE of the cairn, but the perimeter can barely be traced in reclaimed grassland SE of this. There is a telecommunications mast within the enclosure.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
GSIAP - Geological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1973). Geological Survey. Beggars Bush, Haddington Road, Dublin 4.
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.