Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Castlesampson, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castlesampson
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.41656, -8.11315
- SMR number
- RO051-034002-
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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
On an E-facing slope in an undulating landscape. The children's burial ground (RO051-034001-) is within a D-shaped scrub-covered enclosure (dims 34m N-S; 18.5m E-W) defined by a grass-covered stone spread S-W-N and a N-S masonry wall on the straight E side but with no evidence of the enclosure E of this feature where there is a farm shed.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.