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Enclosure

Rosses Upper, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Rosses Upper, 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
Rosses Upper
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.30600, -8.56899
SMR number
SL008-174----

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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)
  • 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)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated in gently undulating pasture 100m to N of foreshore at W end of Rosses Point. There are excellent views over Oyster Island, Coney Island and the mouth of Sligo Harbour. This enclosure is not depicted on any edition of the OS 6-inch map, but is recorded on an aerial photograph (OS 3 0337-8, roll 158, pr. 24). A field inspection in 1994 found that the enclosure had been leveled, but a faint outline could still be traced. It consisted of a circular area (diam. 9.5m N−S) defined by a fosse, evident as a shallow depression (Wth 2-2.3m; D 0.2m). Outside the fosse, an outer bank could be traced at NE−W as a very low rise (Wth c. 2m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.1m). The overall diameter from mid bank to mid bank was 16m N−S. The interior sloped gently down from N to S. When inspected in 2004, there was no visible surface trace at ground level.

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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