Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Rosses Upper, County Sligo, Ireland
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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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
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
- Middenunder 1 mi
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- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.