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Enclosure - large enclosure

Liscoffy (Kelly),Killeenadeema, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure - large enclosure, Liscoffy (Kelly), Killeenadeema, 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
Liscoffy (Kelly),Killeenadeema
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Embanked enclosure
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
53.54652, -8.18804
SMR number
RO044-024001-

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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

At the shoulder of the W edge of a plateau. Circular grass-covered area (int. diam. 74m N-S; 69.2m E-W) defined by a stone spread (Wth 6-7m; H 0.2-0.5m) NE-S, and by a drystone wall and townland boundary (at W: Wth 1m; int. H 1.45m; ext. H 1.6m) with Liscoffey elsewhere. There is no identifiable original entrance. Within is a subcircular area (RO044-024002-) (diam. c. 30m) defined by a stone spread (at N: Wth 8m; H 0.4m) backing onto the perimeter SE-SW with a relict field wall attached at W. There is a rectangular house platform (RO044-024003-) (dims 9.7m NE-SW; 9m NW-SE; H 0.1m) inside the perimeter at W, and a hut-site (RO044-024004-) (int. diam. 8m) defined by an arc of a stone spread (Wth 2.5m; H 0.15-0.25m) E-S-W is inside the perimeter at NE.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Nearby in the register

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

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