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Enclosure

Castlegal (Carbury By., Glencar ED), County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Castlegal, 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
Castlegal (Carbury By., Glencar ED)
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.31696, -8.42141
SMR number
SL009-062001-

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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

Situated on a locally prominent rise on a slight S-facing slope, in elevated mountain pasture, on the W slopes of Cope's Mountain. Oval area (5.6m E-W; 4.65m N-S) enclosed by a very low, broad bank (Wth 2m; int. H 15m) of earth and rubble limestone. A poorly defined break (Wth 0.7m) in the bank at W appears to mark the position of the original entrance. A slight roughly oval hollow (2.75m N-S; 2.55m E-W) of uncertain significance is located against the inner face of the bank at NNE defined by a low earth and stone bank (Wth 1.15m; int. H 0.3m) at SW-NW, by the bank of the enclosure at NW-NE and by a slight inward facing scarp at NE-SW. A cross slab (SL009-062002-) is located immediately to the SSW of the hollow to S of centre within the enclosure. A standing stone (SL009-062003-) is located at the external base of the bank of the enclosure at N.

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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