Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure - large enclosure
Tirconnellbeg, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tirconnellbeg
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.45390, -8.20377
- SMR number
- RO047-056001-
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 large circular enclosure (diam. c. 90m) defined by relict stone walls on vertical aerial photographs (GSIAP: M 597-6) and situated on a rise in an undulating landscape. It is overlain by relict field walls (RO047-056002-) which pre-date the current strip fields but which are also marked on the 1915 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. The area is now reclaimed and no feature is visible at ground level in reclaimed pasture, although it is known locally that bones were uncovered there and what may have been a font or bullaun stone was discovered at the time of the reclamation but this stone is since lost.
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
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.