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Enclosure - large enclosure

Ballyglass (Athlone North By.),Curraghnaveen, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure - large enclosure, Ballyglass, Curraghnaveen, 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
Ballyglass (Athlone North By.),Curraghnaveen
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.54383, -8.13801
SMR number
RO045-011----

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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

On a rise of a gentle E-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 76m NE-SW; 73m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.4-4.4m; int. H 0.4-0.6m; ext. H 0.3-1.2m), which is overgrown E-SW, separated by a fosse (at SE: Wth of top 7.3m; Wth of base 2.2m) from an outer bank (at SE: Wth 6.4m; int. H 1.3m; ext. H 0.35m) that is best preserved NE-SE (max. ext. diam. 86m NW-SE). There is an entrance (Wth 3.7m) through both banks at NE. The interior is cut by a NW-SE field wall and townland boundary SW of the centre and a field bank runs SW from this in Curraghnaveen townland. There is also a relict NW-SE field wall with a spur off to the E in Ballyglass and some clearance cairns in the interior.

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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