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Enclosure - large enclosure

Turrock, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure - large enclosure, Turrock, 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
Turrock
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.49259, -8.20431
SMR number
RO044-086001-

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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

Visible as a large circular feature on aerial photographs (GSIAP: M 472-3), and situated on a level landscape. Circular grass-covered, but poached, area (diam. 63m NW-SE) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 2m, H 0.4m) E-SW, which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.4-1m) SW-NW. The monument is overlain by a NNE-SSW field wall towards the perimeter at E, and the area E of this is regarded locally as a children's burial ground (RO044-086002-). A field wall runs NW from this wall, and the perimeter of the enclosure N of this cannot be traced. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. Archaeological testing (02E0443) c. 50-100m to the NW failed to recover any associated material (Read 2004p).

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 21st January, 2011

References

GSIAP - Geological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1973). Geological Survey. Beggars Bush, Haddington Road, Dublin 4.

Read, C. 2004p Dysert: no archaeological significance. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2002: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 453-4, No. 1605. Bray. Wordwell.

Nearby in the register

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

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