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Enclosure

Ballynagalliagh, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Ballynagalliagh, County Sligo, 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
Ballynagalliagh
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
54.33784, -8.46145
SMR number
SL008-078----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1869 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 4. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Straddling narrow level summit of ESE-WNW orientated ridge, in pasture. Natural ground level slopes down steeply to the N and S of the site. Slightly raised roughly rectangular area (dims. 17m NNE-WSW; 20m WNW-ESE) enclosed by a low broad bank of earth (Wth 3.7m; int. H 0.3m). At the external foot of the bank is a fosse (Wth 2.8m; D 0.9m). From NW-NE the bank is absent and the site is defined by a scarp (ext. H 1.8m). The bank is also absent NE-SE where a NNE-WSW orientated field bank, with a drain on the E side, defines the edge of the monument. The fosse encloses the site SW-NE only, across the level summit of the ridge, and is absent elsewhere. The original entrance is not recognisable.

Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan

Date of upload: 21 April 2011

Nearby in the register

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

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